Freight rail service linking Hai Phong with China’s Kaiyuan launched
The Vietnam Railways Corporation (VNR) has launched a freight rail service between Vietnam’s northern port city of Hai Phong and Kaiyuan in China’s Yunnan province.
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The line has a total length of 610 kilometres and a single ride will take 29 hours, excluding time spent on customs procedures at the Lao Cai station in Vietnam and Shanyao station in China.
At the present time, cargo on the trains bound for China is mainly sulphur and zinc ore while the cargo from the other side is mainly fertiliser.
In the first stage, there will be two pairs of trains a day between the two localities and the frequency is expected to rise to three-four pairs of trains a day in the near future.
The launch of the Hai Phong-Kaiyuan cargo line is part of the freight rail cooperation between the two countries, which helps to transport goods with lower costs than those transported by road.
In the near future VNR will add more trains to the cargo line and improve accompanying services to meet customers’ demand and increase international freight quantity using rail services.
