Freight trains to, from Europe surge in H1

Freight services between China and Europe through the border port of Ereenhot in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region grew by 34 percent to 956 trips during the first six months of this year, local authorities said on Friday. Of these, 414 were outbound trips and 542 inbound, according to the Ereenhot station of exit and entry frontier inspection. The freight trains carried 960,000 metric tons of goods from January to June, up 65.6 percent on a yearly basis.