Tianjin offers railfreight for EVs to Europe

A FREIGHT train carrying 110 electric vehicles (EVs) has Tianjin for Europe, marking the launch of a new international logistics route for transporting made-in-China EVs, reports Xinhua.

It is the first China-Europe freight train departing from Tianjin that is exclusively for shipping EVs manufactured in China, according to local railway authorities.

The train is scheduled to run outbound through the Erenhot port in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and arrive in Moscow in 18 days.

The EVs produced in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region can now reach Central Asia and European countries in two weeks through the newly launched route, according to the cargo agent SWIFT Transport.

By the end of November, Tianjin, a main node of China's transport channel to Eurasia and one of the closest Chinese ports to Central Asia, had launched 634 China-Europe freight trains and China-Central Asia trains, transporting more than 68,000 TEU of goods this year, said the China Railway Beijing Group Co Ltd.