The China-Europe freight train linking the city of Jinhua in east China's Zhejiang Province with Budapest in Hungary is launched on June 7, 2021. (Xinhua/Hu Xiaofei)

A freight train loaded with goods worth

600,000 euros arrived in Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, on

Monday, which marks the arrival of Taizhou China-Europe freight train's

first batch of imported goods after launched, reported Chinanews.com.

It is learned the carrier catalyst transported on this train is the

core functional component of the automobile exhaust gas purifier. This

batch of goods were loaded at Duisburg port of German in early June, and

took a 25-day-trip to reach Taizhou.

According to a relevant person in charge of Taizhou Customs, the

Taizhou China-Europe freight train was launched in February this year.

Featuring relatively short transportation time and low freight cost, it

is welcomed by Taizhou enterprises and is playing an important role in

boosting Taizhou smart manufacturing to expand its international market.

Compared with ocean shipping, rail transportation saves a logistics

cost of 2,000 yuan to 3,000 yuan per container and shortens

transportation time by more than 10 days. "We hope to import goods

through freight train in the future," said a purchasing manager of a

local company in Taizhou.

Statistics from Taizhou Customs showed that from January to May this

year, Taizhou imported a total of 9.73 billion yuan of goods, of which

1.6 billion yuan of commodities came from Europe, making Europe

Taizhou's third largest source of imports. The launch of this cargo

train service will help more enterprises in Taizhou to import products

through this cross-border freight route.