NW. China's Gansu launches 1st cross-border e-commerce int'l freight train of single-category products

Northwest China's Gansu Province has recently launched its first cross-border e-commerce international freight train carrying a single category of products, marking a breakthrough in cross-border e-commerce business of Gansu (Wuwei) International Land Port, reported Gansu Daily on Tuesday.

Departing from Gansu's Wuwei South Station, the train is loaded with 50 forty-foot containers of only brand shoes, which worth about 19.29 million yuan (about 3.03 million U.S. dollars). The train is expected to arrive in Hamburg, Germany by the end of this month.

Gansu (Wuwei) International Land Port has handled 10 China-Europe freight trains so far this year, with a total cargo volume of about 11,000 tons and a total value of around 95 million yuan, up 270 percent year on year, signaling a handsome start in the first quarter of 2022.