China's largest land port sees robust trade via China-Europe freight train service

HOHHOT -- Manzhouli, China's largest land port, handled 4,818 China-Europe freight trains in 2022, up 37.6 percent year-on-year, according to data from the customs of Manzhouli in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

The trains carried 382,058 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo during this period, with a total value of 48.66 billion yuan ($7 billion). The two figures each represented a year-on-year increase of 38.6 percent and 36.5 percent, respectively.

Currently, 57 China-Europe freight train routes pass through this land port, reaching 28 cities in 11 European countries and carrying about 30 percent of the total freight volume of China-Europe freight train service.