VIENTIANE, July 2 (Xinhua) -- A freight transit yard of the China-Laos Railway was officially put into operation on Friday with the first railway containers heading to Thailand's Laem Chabang port.
This makes the international logistics channel of land-sea intermodal transport more convenient.
The China-Laos Railway adopts international standards while the Thai railway currently uses a 1-meter gauge system.
Railway freight transport between Laos and Thailand requires reloading operations.
The freight transit yard of China-Laos Railway's Vientiane South Station is expected to work to improve the efficiency of freight transport between China and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries.
So far by June 30, the China-Laos Railway has carried 3.36 million passengers with the railway's Lao section carrying 0.48 million passengers, 4.69 million tons of freight and 0.77 million tons of China-Laos cross-border goods.
The China-Laos Railway is a docking project between the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and Laos' strategy to convert itself from a landlocked country to a land-linked hub.
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