At the Central South International Land Port Consolidation Center in Changsha, dispersed small and micro goods such as electronic accessories, auto parts, and hardware products, which had been neatly packaged at factories under the guidance of railway logistics companies, were awaiting autonomous sorting, grouping, and centralized container loading. They would embark on a westbound journey via the "Silk Road LCL (Less than Container Load)" of China-Europe freight train service.

In the past, small, medium, and micro enterprises in inland areas could not independently book containers for shipment due to insufficient cargo volume. Thus, they had to choose expensive air freight or slow sea freight. The high logistics costs and long transportation cycles greatly hindered their pace of going global and made it difficult to steadily explore overseas markets. To address the pain points of small and micro exports, Central South International Land Port has innovatively created a specialized consolidation and combined transport model, breaking the threshold of traditional full-container transport and precisely catering to the small-batch, multi-frequency, and personalized export needs of small, medium, and micro enterprises.

Leveraging the intelligent dispatching system of the Changsha Railway Logistics Center and the stable, high-frequency China-Europe freight train service, dispersed cargo from various enterprises and categories in Hunan and surrounding areas are uniformly consolidated, intelligently distributed, and co-loaded, achieving "multiple goods sharing a container to go global together." This significantly improves container utilization and effectively revitalizes fragmented inland foreign trade resources.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government. www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: Chinanews