According to the Xuzhou Huaihai International Port District, in August of this year, the Central European train from Xuzhou showed an excellent result: the volume of loading of the Central European train from China and the volume of loading of the return train from Europe were in first place in the Group of the Shanghai Central Railway Bureau.
In 2020, China became the main trading partner of Germany and the EU. The German economy is the strongest in Europe, and China is the driver of global economic growth. Therefore, the ties between Germany and China are of particular importance for the development of the Eurasian railway route.
In the first half of 2021, 336,598 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) were transported along the Eurasian railway transit route in the China—Europe—China direction, which is 50% more than in the first half of 2020.