A thousand miles to meet! The first "Tashkent-Hefei" Central Asian cotton yarn return special train shipped

On June 21, 16:52 local time in Uzbekistan, a special train full of 1200 tons of Central Asian cotton yarn slowly departed from the Tashkent Churxai railway yard station and entered via the Horgos port, arriving at the Hefei North Station logistics base about 15 days later.

Uzbekistan is the pearl on the Silk Road, with its infinite charm. It is famous for its high quality cotton, known as the "Land of Platinum", and is the largest cotton producer and exporter in Central Asia. 100 TEU of cotton yarn were shipped this year, marking the first Central Asian return direction of the Hefei China-European Liner, and opening up a new site in Churculsa. shipped a total of 237 trains, including 96 trains in the Central Asia direction.

Since the opening of the Hefei North-Tashkent point-to-point Central Asia train in 2019, Hefei International Land Port has continued to tighten the line network, enrich the transport category, improve the service capacity and expand the radiation range, opening a total of 45 lines, point-to-point direct access to 14 countries and 42 international node cities, and continuously building a "Central Europe to and from + Central Asia to and from "The "two-way" channel for import and export has helped trade between Anhui and Central Asia. 

In the old days, there was a camel trading in China, but now there is an inland port to connect with the world. In the next step, Hefei International Land Port will take the opportunity of the smooth opening of the "Tashkent-Hefei" return train, focus on building an international trade and logistics centre, strengthen and optimize the supply chain and logistics chain, actively unite with foreign trade enterprises in the province to develop special imported goods from Central Asia, encrypt the return train from Central Asia, and strive to realize the "two-way" regularization of the Central Asia train. "We will continue to tell the story of Anhui on the stage of "One Belt, One Road".