A new international combined sea-rail transport logistics channel was officially launched in Wuhan, capital city of Central China's Hubei province, on Dec 12, with the first two containers from the Toyota plant in Nagoya in Japan departing from Wuhan bound for Duisburg, Germany, according to local media reports.
The goods are expected to reach Duisburg on Dec 28, and will then be transported by container truck to the Toyota plant in the Czech Republic.
With the launch of the logistics channel, the transportation time of goods from Japan to Europe will be shortened from the original 45 days to about 22 days.
In recent years, through marine shipping lines and the China-Europe Freight Train (Wuhan), an international logistics network system - with Wuhan as its transit hub - has been formed.
On Nov 28, 2019, Wuhan launched a direct shipping route for container vessels linking the city with Japan, marking the first international shipping route in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. So far, 58 trips have been made.
