The Huaihua International Land Port achieved remarkable results from January to May this year, said the Land-Sea New Corridor Operation (Hunan) Co., Ltd. on June 26, 2025. A total of 481 freight train trips were operated in the port during the period, a year-on-year increase of 45%. There were 24,030 shipping containers delivered, weighing about 400,000 tonnes and worth around 3.3 billion CNY. The import and export trade presented a mutually prosperous trend, showing strong development momentum.

Goods packed in shipping containers are ready to be deivered to ASEAN countries via freight train service at the Huaihua International Land Port in Hunan Province. (Photo/Zhang Zhuo)

A spokesperson for the Land-Sea New Corridor Operation (Hunan) Co., Ltd. noted that goods departing from the port included luggage and bags, groceries, and ammonium sulfate while arriving goods were tapioca starch, longan, and bananas. These goods covered 406 kinds in 17 categories, of which the proportion of low-value ones such as ore declined. The value of a single container of goods increased from 120,000 CNY at the end of last year to 140,000 CNY, with the quality of the sources of goods optimized remarkably.

In 2025, the Huaihua International Land Port has launched six newly-added routes, adding the total number to 161, an increase of 3.87%. The transportation network covered 158 ports and stations in 52 countries and regions around the world. Thanks to the driving force of the port, Huaihua's foreign trade continued to surge in the first five months, whose total value of imports and exports grew 8% to six billion CNY.

Huaihua has actively implemented the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi cooperation agreement, to promote the ASEAN-oriented cargoes of the cities along the Jiaozuo-Liuzhou and Shanghai-Kunming railways to gather in Huaihua. Cargoes such as ammonium sulfate, luggage and bags, groceries, medium-sized buses, sodium metabisulfite, and thermoplastic rubber from Hubei, Jiangxi, Yunnan, and Jiangsu can be transported directly to ASEAN.

The government also offered preferential polices and services for the development of the Huaihua International Land Port. An innovative subsidy mode has been adopted at the port, to reduce the logistics cost of enterprises. Meanwhile, the policies of cargo concentration in port have been coordinated with the preferential rail freight fares, decreasing the railway costs by up to 52%, which provided a solid guarantee for the enterprises to expand production and increase efficiency.

The Huaihua International Land Port has been striving to integrate into the Belt and Road Initiative, injecting constant vitality into the regional economic development and international trade cooperation.

责编：田梦瑶

一审：田梦瑶

二审：秦慧英

三审：张权

来源：湖南省政府门户网