China News Service, Taiyuan, July 9 (Yang Jieying, Yang Peipei) At 9:50 a.m. on July 9, Shanxi’s first cross-Caspian international freight train, fully loaded with locally manufactured photovoltaic modules, departed from Zhongding Logistics Park, bound for Baku, Azerbaijan. This marks the official launch of Shanxi’s international logistics corridor—the cross-Caspian international freight train route.
The train carries 50 standard containers of photovoltaic module products, weighing 1,159 tons. The logistics operation was jointly completed by Huayuan International Land Port Group, China Railway Taiyuan Group Co., Ltd., China Railway Container Shanxi Branch, Zhongding Logistics Park, and Shenzhen Dayang Company.
According to reports, the cross-Caspian route follows the core path of “China—Kazakhstan—Caspian Sea (shipping)—Azerbaijan.” Compared to traditional transportation routes, it will reduce transit time and achieve seamless multimodal transport integration of “sea, rail, and land,” becoming Shanxi’s “multimodal transport corridor spanning East Asia to Europe” for international trade.
Leveraging Baku, Azerbaijan, as a logistics hub, Shanxi-produced photovoltaic modules can be efficiently distributed to the Caucasus, Turkey, and Eastern European countries, covering emerging energy markets.
As Shanxi’s largest comprehensive modern logistics enterprise, Huayuan International Land Port Group is accelerating the development of a modern logistics industrial system featuring “corridors + hubs + networks,” striving to build a high-level open economic platform. To date, the group has established 23 regular China-Europe (Asia) freight train routes, connecting 48 major cities across 16 countries. (End)
