Shanghai sees 42 pct y-o-y increase in sea-rail transportation since March

STORY: Shanghai sees 42 pct y-o-y increase in sea-rail transportation since March DATELINE: April 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:08 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Luchao Port Central Station 2. SOUNDBITE(Chinese): WANG MINGWEI, Deputy General Manager of Luchao Port Central Station STORYLINE: According to China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group, a total of 655 trips have been made by sea-rail freight trains in east China's Shanghai since this March, transporting 84,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of goods, up 42 percent year-on-year. Officials from the group said that sea-rail combined transportation has much relieved the city's logistic pressure since road transportation has been impacted by the recent COVID-19 resurgence. Luchao Port Central Station, which shoulders 90 percent of the business volume of Shanghai's sea-rail combined transportation, has worked to guarantee the smooth operation of at least 10 pairs of sea-rail freight trains to transport over 20 TEUs of emerg