China-Europe freight train trips surpass 10,000 this year

WUHAN: China-Europe freight train trips surpassed 10,000 this year, as a train bound for Duisburg in Germany departed from Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, on Wednesday. Xinhua News Agency quoted China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., as saying that the mark was passed 19 days earlier than last year. The trains have transported more than 1.08 million twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers of goods this year, up 11 percent year-on-year. Source: Emirates News Agency