The Nanning South Railway Station in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has sent 283,000 tons of goods this year as of Friday, handling a total of 2.49 million train carriages, a year-on-year increase of 6.6 percent. The west of China has seen a total of 3,174 trips via its land-sea freight route in the first three quarters of the year, surpassing last year's total, according to the China Railway Nanning Group Co., Ltd. The figure represents a growth of 1,657 trips from the same period in 2019, said the company. The land-sea freight route is part of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, a trade and logistics passage jointly built by western Chinese provinces and Singapore, which is seen as an important bridge for China-ASEAN trade, economic cooperation. Work has been done to reduce logistics costs at ports and offer customized logistics plans to cut transport time.
