China's China State Railway Group Co. (China Railway) announced that in the first three months of this year on the railway lines connecting China with Europe are 4,541 freight trains were operated and handled A total of 493 thousand containers of goods traffic TEU, with increases of +9% and +10% respectively on the former quarter of 2023.

China Railway pointed out that this year, it is also the experimentation of transport on the Southern Corridor has been carried out of the New Silk Road with the journey of six freight trains from Xi'an, Chongqing, and Yiwu in Poti, Georgia. In addition, the Chinese group highlighted that the quality of service on the China-Europe continues to improve, with a significant reduction in travel times of the regular services connecting Xi'an with Duisburg, Germany, and Chengdu with Lodz, Poland.