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Going Like a Train

A China-Europe freight train departed from Yiwu in Zhejiang Province, east China, on July 29 for Madrid, Spain, marking the 10,000th China-Europe freight train trip this year alone. Those trains have accumulatively transported 1.08 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a unit of volume used in maritime and rail transport statistics, of goods this year, up 27 percent year on year.

The China-Europe freight train

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