NE China ports bustling with China-Europe freight trains

China's land ports of Manzhouli and Suifenhe on the China-Russia border have seen over 10,000 China-Europe freight trains since the operation started in 2013, according to the China Railway Harbin Group Co., Ltd.

A crane loads containers at the Manzhouli Railway Station in Manzhouli, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, April 13, 2020. (Xinhua/Yu Jia)

A total of 10,556 cross-border freight trains have passed through the two major ports in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, handling 952,601 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) of cargo.

The imported and exported goods mainly include daily necessities, electrical products, and industrial machinery.

So far, the Manzhouli and Suifenhe ports have over 50 China-Europe freight train routes that reach more than 10 European countries.