At the event (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A ceremony was held in Hanoi’s Yen Vienstation on August 2 to welcome the first freight train on Shijiazhuang (China) – Yen Vien (Vietnam) railway route.
Speaking at the event, Chairman of the Members' Council of the Vietnam Railway Corporation (VRC)Dang Sy Manh said the first international multimodal freighttrain from Shijiazhuang to Yen Vien ran on a distance of about 2,700 km with a time of 4-5days. It consists of 23 carriages and carries nearly 800 tonnes of goods,including metal equipment, chemicals, and fertilisers.
Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Xiong Bo said the official launching of the route is an important step in the Beltand Road Initiative between China and Vietnam, thus helping their qualityproducts penetrate each other’s market more conveniently.
At the event, the Railway Transport and TradeJSC (Ratraco) and the Shijiazhuang Inland Port Co. Ltd. signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement.
According to experts, this route will promotetwo-way trade between China’s Hebei province and ASEAN countries. It willcontribute to establishing a supplementary mechanism for mutual raw materialsourcing between ASEAN and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei triangle area in China./.
