Over the past five years, the new international land-sea trade corridor has expanded its reach to 523 ports in 124 countries and regions.

The trade corridor, whose operational center is located in Chongqing, Southwest China, connects the world's ports via railroads, sea lanes and highways through such southern Chinese regions as Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province. Yunnan.

According to data released Monday by the coordination center for logistics and operation of the new international land-sea trade corridor, more than 30,000 freight trains have traveled along the corridor in the past 5 years.

From 2019 to 2023, the annual volume of freight traffic on this corridor from Chongqing increased by 50 percent, 45 percent, 54 percent, 32 percent and 21 percent year-on-year respectively.

Over the past five years, the range of goods transported along the trade corridor has expanded from more than 80 to more than 1,150 items, including electronic goods, vehicles and spare parts, small household appliances, and foodstuffs.

The corridor not only promotes the opening up and development of West China, but also opens up new opportunities for countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, the center said.

As of July 26, 2024, since the beginning of the current year on the route of multimodal international freight traffic “China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan” was recorded 100 departures of freight trains, which is 103.94 percent more than a year earlier. This was reported by Urumqi branch of the Corporation “Chinese Railways” /CRC/.

Multimodal transport corridor “China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan” is a logistics highway that passes through China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and operates in the format of mixed freight transportation by road and rail. Containers are first delivered by rail to Kashgar North Station /Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Northwest China/, then exported from China by road through Irkeshtam border crossing point, and finally delivered to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and further to other countries.

With the further implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative, trade cooperation between China and West and Central Asian countries has become increasingly close in recent years. Especially since the beginning of 2024, there has been a rapid increase in the volume of goods transported by rail to Kashgar for transit from the country. By now, the figure has exceeded 100,000 tons, up 53,300 tons from a year earlier.

After the opening of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan multimodal transport corridor in 2020, freight trains started to run along this route in turn from such areas of China as the Guangdong-Syangan-Aomen Greater Bay Area, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Sichuan and Jiangsu provinces. The categories of goods transported have expanded from more than 30 kinds of goods in the beginning, such as clothing and metal tools, to more than 300 kinds now, including new energy vehicles and spare parts.

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The Joint Maritime Information Center for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (JMIC) said Tuesday that the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Chios Lion was attacked by Yemen's Houthis in the Red Sea, and that it was assessing the damage and investigating a potential oil spill.

An unmanned vessel caused minor damage to the Chios Lion's port side on Monday, after the Houthis launched multiple attacks on the ship and another vessel sailing in waters about 100 nautical miles northwest of the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah.

“After the attack, the vessel was heading south, but reversed course and headed north away from the threat area to further assess the damage and investigate a potential oil spill,” the Joint Military Impact Assessment Center said in a statement.

The captain and crew were safe, the report said.

Chios Lion's manager did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Yemen's Houthis said they attacked the Chios Lion and Bentley I using ballistic missiles, drones and bomb-laden speedboats in retaliation for a deadly Israeli airstrike on the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on Saturday.

Houthi attacks have taken an economic toll on global trade since last November, forcing shipowners to abandon the Suez Canal shortcut in favor of the longer, more expensive African bypass route.

Spilled cargoes such as oil and fertilizer, as well as ship fuel, also pose an environmental threat.

The China-Laos Railway has transported more than 100,000 tons of fruit this year, up about 120 percent from a year earlier, the Kunming branch of China Railway Corp. said.

On Thursday, 108 tons of durian from Thailand transported by this railroad were unloaded at Hongyun International Logistics Port in Kunming city. It took only 29 hours to deliver this consignment from Vientiane South Railway Station to the unloading site in Kunming, Yunnan Province, Kunming Branch of the corporation said.

Thanks to simplified customs clearance procedures, tropical fruits from South and Southeast Asia are constantly shipped to China by this railroad. The time to pass through customs control on the railroad has been reduced to five hours, facilitating the transportation of fruits and vegetables, flowers and other goods requiring rapid transit, said the Kunming Branch of the corporation.

The railroad, which started operation in December 2021, is a landmark project under the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road. It is 1,035 kilometers long and connects the administrative center of Yunnan Province, Kunming, with Wien. Kunming to Vientiane in Laos.