{"id":17549,"date":"2026-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/china-europe-railway-express-volumes-rose-by-a-quarter-in-first-two-months-of-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:00:00","slug":"china-europe-railway-express-volumes-rose-by-a-quarter-in-first-two-months-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/china-europe-railway-express-volumes-rose-by-a-quarter-in-first-two-months-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"China-Europe Railway Express volumes rose by a quarter in first two months of 2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>China-Europe Railway Express operated 3,501 freight trains in the first two months of 2026, carrying 352,000 TEU, according to China State Railway Group.<\/p>\n<p>The growth coincided with an expansion in China-EU trade. China\u2019s General Administration of Customs reported trade with the EU reached CNY 998.94bn (EUR 127.5bn) in the same period, up 19.9% year on year, compared with 18.3% growth in China\u2019s total foreign trade.<\/p>\n<p>China State Railway Group stated that since the start of 2026 it has adjusted scheduling and strengthened coordination to align China-Europe freight train services more closely with market demand.<\/p>\n<p>At Alashankou Port in Xinjiang, 1,498 China-Europe and China-Central Asia freight trains were handled by 5 March, up 24.1% year on year, according to China Railway Urumqi Bureau Group.<\/p>\n<p>As of June 2025, the China-Europe Railway Express network linked 128 Chinese cities with 229 destinations in Europe and more than 100 cities in Asia, according to data released at a Foreign Ministry press conference. Trains depart on average every 30 minutes or less across the network.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China-Europe Railway Express operated 3,501 freight trains in the first two months of 2026, carrying 352,000 TEU, according to China State Railway Group.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}