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trainservice Wuhan-Duisburg restarted

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Topic: trainservice Wuhan-Duisburg restarted
Posted By: Dutch Josh
Subject: trainservice Wuhan-Duisburg restarted
Date Posted: March 28 2020 at 8:27am

[url]http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/28/WS5e7ec1ffa310128217282b01.html[/url]

China-Europe freight train service from Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province, resumed regular operations on Saturday, allowing more goods such as medical supplies and daily necessities to flow more efficiently between the two regions, according to the Wuhan branch of the China State Railway Group.


On Saturday morning, the X8015/6 rail carrying 50 cargo containers left the Wuhan station en route to central Europe. It is the first freight train of its kind to leave Wuhan after the COVID-19 outbreak began, and it is estimated to reach Duisburg, Germany in 15 days.

Nearly 90 percent of all goods aboard were produced locally in Wuhan, including 166.4 metric tons of medical supplies such as medical fabrics. There were also auto parts, electronics and telecommunication cables on the train, and all these goods would aid in pandemic control and construction projects in European countries such as Germany, France, Hungry, the Czech Republic and Poland.

[url]https://www.rt.com/news/484344-china-wuhan-first-train/[/url]



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Posted By: EdwinSm,
Date Posted: March 28 2020 at 8:49am

15 days in transit should help a lot of the viruses to die, as long as the containers are not handled too much along the way.



Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: March 28 2020 at 9:15am

Let's hope there are not to many virusses on them in the first place...

[url]http://english.www.gov.cn/news/photos/202003/28/content_WS5e7f1790c6d0c201c2cbfb0a.html[/url]

[url]https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-03-27/Investor-Jim-Rogers-I-would-rather-buy-from-China-than-the-U-S--Pb3cWwJ6xi/index.html[/url]

Delivery of car parts etc. may also enable to-slowly-restart car production. Most likely a lot of facemasks, PPE, medical ventilators etc also on the way....once the US played that role (as manufacturer of the world). I would not be surprised if China would send hospitals by rail....



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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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