n the past 23 days, this train was sent out from Qingdao SCO Demonstration Zone, left the country through Alashankou Port, and arrived here through 6 countries, travelling more than 10,000 kilometres.
This is the 1,790th Shandong China-European train this year, the terminal station in Jijia Yard has a new name this day - Shandong China-European train collection centre in Serbia. This consolidation centre is the first Central and Eastern European consolidation centre of Shandong CELS, and Shandong has become the first province to set up a Central and Eastern European consolidation centre in China.
Why did the first Central and Eastern European consolidation centre land in Serbia? Shandong High-Speed (Shandong Hi-Speed) Qilu No. Eurasian Liner Operation Co., Ltd. chairman Sun Lei said, Serbia is located in the East and West Europe ‘crossroads’, is the logistics hub of the Balkan Peninsula, a lot of Shandong enterprises to set up factories in Serbia to build up their business. ‘The establishment of the Central and Eastern Europe consolidation centre will enhance the service capacity of the overseas channel, further expand the Central and Eastern Europe line and ‘Shandong - Serbia - Western Europe’ trans-Caspian international transport routes, to crack the regional tensions brought about by the bottleneck of cargo transport in the direction of Western Europe. bottleneck of cargo transport in the direction of Western Europe.’ He said.
Headquartered in Zhaoyuan, Shandong Linglong Tyre Co., Ltd. is the first domestic tyre enterprise to build a factory in Europe. In response to the needs of the enterprise, Shandong China-European Union liner provides customised and one-stop logistics solutions, and the stable and efficient liner transport helps Linglong Tyre's Serbian factory to continuously improve its production capacity. Lin Jianguang, Manager of Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management of Linglong in Europe, made this calculation: it takes an average of 35 days for goods to travel on the China-European Union liner, while it takes one month more to travel by sea.
In September 2019, Shandong's China-European Union liner was the first in the country to open a Serbian line and operate stably. ‘The establishment of the Serbian consolidation centre is another milestone in the history of the development of Shandong's China-European liner train, and a concrete practice of Shandong Province to deepen China-Serbia cooperation.’ Wang Qifeng, chairman of Shandong Hi-Speed Group, said that the next step will be to rely on the consolidation centre in Serbia, accelerate the layout of important nodes such as Budapest, Hungary and Malaszewicz, Poland, and actively participate in the construction of the Trans-Caspian Sea International Transport Corridor, create a number of high-quality lines for Central and Eastern European liner trains, and weave the service network of the Balkan Peninsula and the Central and Eastern European region by pointing out the lines and expanding the surface. The service network in the Balkan Peninsula and Central and Eastern Europe has been tightened.
Day and night, travelling thousands of miles. As the flagship project and iconic brand of the ‘Belt and Road’, China-EU liner has become a popular international public product. ‘The regular operation of the China-European Union (CEU) shuttle train plays an important role in promoting economic and trade exchanges between Serbia and China. We hope that Shandong Province will use Serbia as a regional logistics centre and keep expanding the scope of trade, and we join hands to achieve mutual benefits.’ Serbia's Minister of Internal and External Trade Momirovic said.
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