Leveraging the New Western Land-Sea Corridor to Achieve Seamless “Sea-Rail” Integration
Chongqing Steel Saves 23 Days in Raw Material Transport
By utilizing the logistics network of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, the delivery of steel raw materials produced in Chongqing has been significantly accelerated. On July 20, Chongqing Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Chongqing Steel) announced that since adopting this corridor for raw material distribution in June this year, the company transported 86,000 tons of raw materials through the channel in that month alone, cutting 23 days off the previous “river-sea intermodal” transport time.
A company executive explained that Chongqing Steel previously relied on the “river-sea intermodal” method for importing raw materials like iron ore. After ocean shipping to the Yangtze River estuary, the cargo was transported upstream to Chongqing, which led to long-standing challenges such as high logistics costs and inefficiencies in raw material delivery.
“Now, by using the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, we achieve seamless ‘sea-rail’ integration. Raw materials arrive at Fangchenggang Port in Guangxi and are then transported by rail directly to Chongqing, bypassing congested and high-cost segments of traditional logistics routes. This has significantly improved logistics efficiency,” the executive said. This diversified logistics channel has also strengthened the company’s risk resilience and supply security for raw materials, providing robust support for stable production and on-time deliveries.
While scaling up high-efficiency raw material transport via the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, Chongqing Steel has simultaneously enhanced its unloading capacity at the plant. Through technical improvements and management optimization, the logistics team increased daily container unloading capacity from an initial trial phase of 20 containers to over 100 containers within a month. This not only resolves the challenge of “getting containers in” but also ensures they can be “unloaded quickly and put to use,” laying the groundwork for larger-scale raw material imports in the future.
It is reported that Chongqing Steel will continue leveraging this logistics channel to establish a more mature raw material distribution network, preparing for future steel product exports and market expansion in Southeast Asia. (By Xia Yuan, Chongqing Daily – New Chongqing)
