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The quota Chinese railway traffic goods international is meager, but it is growing
Reunion of Propeller Club of Milan
April 19, 2018
Today the Chinese railway net has a development of 121 thousand kilometers, of which 19 thousand of lines to Alta Velocità, but the international railway traffic goods of the Asian Country is pairs at less than 1.5% of the total. Exiguity of the quota the exchanges with foreign country of China on track has been marked yesterday in the course of the conviviale reunion of the The International Propeller Club Port of Milan on the topic "the rail shipment fleeting and goods in China – a truth of great dimension and in great evolution".
Relatori has been Piergiuseppe Visigalli, for many years managing of Olivetti, and Eugenio Muzio, past president of Propeller Club of Milan. After a excursus historical on the history of the Chinese railroads, Visigalli has emphasized as only 20% of China are flat and as on the front of the fleeting services the great "leap forward" is begun in first years 2000, with the high one velocità' that it is proceeding to impressive rhythms. The development of the AV is considered by the government of instrumental Beijing in order to reduce the regional disparities, favoring the displacement towards the inside of the productive activities and of the population and 38 thousand are being expanded in very fast way until to reach in the 2025 kilometers.
Muzio has emphasized as the last data available have evidenced that in the Country minerals, 21.5%, cereals and fertilizers 4.96% are annually transported for railroad 3.967 million tons of goods (coal 58%, container 2.21%), with a prevalence of national traffic while that the international one - of sun 58 million tons - is pairs to 1,46% of the total. However today the scene is changing and the international traffic sees a remarkable increase thanks to the development of the project One Belt One Road.
Muzio then has been stopped on the street transport of goods in China that sees advanced volumes to the 155 million one teu, circumstance that has carried the government to start a solid conversion on the railroad. Thanks to project OBOR, the initiatives in course they record a remarkable one growing that in the 2017 it has been realized in the realization of beyond three thousand trains from and for the Europe that 57 routes have covered. Muzio has concluded supporting as the Chinese government is investing massively in the railroads because an option wants absolutely alternative to the marine traffic species for the goods to high value with the objective to control better the flow than traffics.
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