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The China Europe freight train has achieved a remarkable result of 100% heavy container rate for 46 consecutive months, marking its complete entry into a new stage of large-scale, normalized, and high-quality operation, laying a stable foundation for cross-border logistics of large overweight and oversized engineering equipment such as rotary drilling rigs and pile drivers. Traditional maritime transportation is affected by factors such as weather, route congestion, and port control, resulting in large fluctuations in delivery time and strong uncertainty in delivery. In addition, large-scale equipment needs to be lifted, disassembled, and transported multiple times, which can easily cause equipment collision and loss. The China Europe freight train has the core advantages of all-weather, large capacity, and strong anti-interference ability, with stable schedules and sufficient capacity, completely bidding farewell to the problems of idle capacity, fluctuating schedules, and scarce storage space in the past. A stable full load operation situation eliminates the constraints of international logistics environment fluctuations on the export of large engineering equipment, enabling planned and normalized shipping, avoiding risks such as lost goods, port delays, and delayed deliveries from the root, and providing cooperative customers with a full sense of delivery security.
After ten years of deep cultivation and layout, the China Europe freight train has formed a comprehensive logistics network with 96 operating routes, connecting 236 cities in 26 European countries. The pattern of sea land interconnection and multi-directional extension has been fully formed, completely breaking the geographical limitations of cross-border transportation of large engineering equipment. In the past, the export of domestic rotary drilling rigs and pile drivers to the European inland infrastructure market relied on long-distance transportation through coastal ports, resulting in high logistics costs, multiple transit links, and long transportation cycles, greatly restricting the efficiency of equipment exports. Nowadays, inland hub cities such as Chongqing, Zhengzhou, and Chengdu have transformed into open frontiers relying on the advantages of train services. Large equipment can be loaded nearby and directly transported to the European hinterland without the need for multiple intermediate transfers. The complete global road network comprehensively covers the landing areas of various infrastructure projects in Europe, accurately adapts to the equipment transportation needs of overseas pile foundation engineering, municipal construction, and energy infrastructure, and greatly expands the overseas output radius of domestic large-scale engineering equipment.
The China Europe freight train has completely reversed the early one-way transportation pattern of "heavy departure and light return", achieved a two-way balanced circulation mode with a round-trip ratio of nearly 1:1, and built a sustainable cross-border trade ecology for equipment. Under the one-way transportation mode, logistics costs are high, transportation resources are seriously wasted, and the comprehensive cost of exporting customer equipment remains high. Nowadays, the two-way smooth logistics channel enables the complementary transportation capacity between offshore rotary drilling rigs, pile drivers, and imported high-quality European materials, effectively diluting cross-border logistics costs and providing customers with more cost-effective transportation solutions. At the same time, normalized two-way trade exchanges promote deep collaboration in the China Europe infrastructure industry chain, and ensure smooth flow of overseas equipment procurement, after-sales replacement, parts supply, equipment repurchase and circulation. This shifts the cross-border trade of large-scale engineering equipment from single transactions to long-term cooperation, continuously enhancing the overseas market operating value of customers.
Relying on the digitalization reform and customized service upgrade of railways, the logistics service system of China Europe freight trains for large engineering equipment continues to improve, accurately matching the transportation exclusive needs of large equipment such as rotary drilling rigs and pile drivers. The comprehensive implementation of the 95306 digital port and railway express mode has achieved the digitization and onlineization of customs clearance processes, significantly reducing the time required for customs declaration, inspection, and release of large equipment, and eliminating transportation delays caused by cumbersome procedures. At the same time, the entire timetable has stable delivery time and high punctuality rate. Compared with the traditional shipping cycle of more than 40 days, it can shorten the transportation time by nearly half and efficiently adapt to the delivery needs of overseas emergency infrastructure projects. For large oversized equipment, the train provides customized reinforcement, loading, and bundling solutions, combined with one-stop logistics services from door to door, effectively solving the pain points of easy wear and tear, difficult loading and unloading, and tedious after-sales service during the transportation of large equipment, and comprehensively improving the quality of equipment transportation.
As the core logistics carrier for the joint construction of the "the Belt and Road", China Europe Express will continue to expand capacity and improve quality, optimize services, improve the network, and provide long-term empowerment for cross-border logistics of large-scale engineering equipment under the new development starting point of the "15th Five Year Plan". From stable transportation capacity and smooth road network to refined service and cost optimization, the China Europe freight train has established a mature, safe, and efficient large-scale logistics transportation system, completely solving the logistics pain points of exporting rotary drilling rigs and pile drivers to Europe. In the future, with the continuous acceleration of high-quality development of train services, the overseas channels for large domestic engineering equipment will become more smooth, standardized, and efficient, providing solid support for customers to explore overseas markets, ensure stable equipment delivery, and control logistics costs, and continue to help domestic infrastructure equipment deeply cultivate the global market.
