In the first half of 2022, 379,000 TEUs of cargo have been sent by the land-sea freight trains of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, up 33.4 percent year-on-year.

The data was released by China Railway Nanning Bureau Group.

The corridor connects 14 provincial-level regions in China with over 310 ports in 107 countries and regions around the world. It especially boosts trade between China and ASEAN countries under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement.

The number of trains operating within the sea-rail intermodal service of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor had surged from 178 in 2017 to 6,117 in 2021.