CHENGDU of Sichuan province will start work on the Chengdu Railway Container Centre, the largest of its kind in Asia when it's completed, at the end of April or early May, Xinhua reported.
Meanwhile, construction on the supporting Chengdu International Container Logistics Park will also begin, the report said.
The CNY2 billion (US$285.82 million) Chengdu Railway Container Centre, located in Chengdu's Qingbaijiang District, covers an area of 1.43 square kilometres, making it the largest of the 18 railway container centres planned by the Ministry of Railway nationwide, the report said.
Construction of the facility will be carried in three phases and its annual capacity will reach 2.2 million - 2.5 million TEU or 25 million tons when all three phases are completed, the report said.
While the neighbouring Chengdu International Container Logistics Park, with an area of 2.47 square kilometres and an annual capacity of two million TEU, will be one of the three largest logistics parks in Chengdu, the report said.
With the two container logistics projects, the largest "inland port" in Central and Western China that is connected with rail-sea intermodal services to different parts of the world will emerge, an official of Chengdu said.
When the "inland port" is taking shape, transportation conditions for containers will be greatly improved, the official said.
Containers from different parts of Chengdu will be transported to the railway container centre and delivered to ports including Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Lianyungang and Tainjin by express container trains, greatly shortening transportation time from Chengdu to the coastal ports, the report said.
Currently container transportation time from Chengdu to Shanghai is five to six days by rail and eight to ten days by water. When the "inland port" is completed, it will take only 48 hours to transport containers from Chengdu to Shanghai or Beijing, greatly reducing cost, the report added.
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