Western land and sea new channel for Thailand durian on the“Express” into the Chinese market

A direct cross-border test train carrying about 500 tons of fresh Thai durian arrived at Xiaonanya station in Jiangjin District on the 11th, it is also the first time that durian from Thailand reaches Chengdu-chongqing region in western China directly through the new railway line of Western land-sea channel.

Compared with the traditional cold chain transportation between Thailand and Chongqing, this transportation method further shortened the time of fresh Thai durian entering Chongqing market.

“The fresh durians left Thailand on the 7th and arrived in Chongqing in just four days,” said Wang Yihua, head of Marketing at Chongqing International Logistics Group, in the past, Chongqing imported durian from Thailand by sea or by rail. This cold-chain transport is a combined“Road and rail” transport, which will reach Chongqing directly after customs clearance from abroad, further improve the efficiency of bilateral logistics transportation.

“For fruit importers, time is money, and every hour is crucial. The durian train effectively reduces the cost of time by more than 50 percent,” said Deng Haoji, chief operating officer of Chongqing Hongjiu Fruit Company.

It is understood that with the“Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement”(RCEP) came into effect, as well as the western land and sea new channel construction, Thailand and other ASEAN countries and our economic and trade exchanges are becoming closer. At the same time, bilateral long-term foreign trade business operators also enjoy further policy“Dividends.”. Deng Haoji said that the combination of various trade policies has helped foreign trade enterprises to achieve real cost reduction and efficiency improvement, which means that fresher Thai durian can enter the Chinese market at a cheaper price