In 2025, seven Chinese ports made it into the global top 20: Shanghai (3rd), Hong Kong (4th), Ningbo-Zhoushan (7th), Guangzhou (12th), Qingdao (13th), Shenzhen (17th), and Tianjin (18th).

On June 3rd, the Hangzhou Railway Logistics Center of China Railway Shanghai Group Co., Ltd. released a set of data: in the first five months of this year, a total of 904 China Europe trains were shipped, with a year-on-year increase of about 8% in freight volume. The Zhejiang China Europe freight train has two customs supervision points in Jinhua and Yiwu. Specifically, in the first five months of this year, the customs supervision point located in Jinhua sent 314 trains, including 131 outbound and 63 return trains in the China Europe direction, 63 outbound and 50 return trains in the Central Asia direction, and 7 outbound trains in the China Laos direction; The customs supervision point located in Yiwu sent 590 trains, including 177 outbound and 181 return trains in the China Europe direction, 169 outbound and 61 return trains in the Central Asia direc...

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Data Bureau, and other relevant departments jointly issued the "Notice on Launching the Pilot Program for Opening Up and Interconnecting Logistics Data." The program selects 16 cities to pilot the opening and interconnection of logistics data, with Ningbo being one of the chosen cities.

On October 31, 2024, the China Afghanistan (Haian Hailaden) direct freight train resumed operation. The direct freight service between China and Arab countries was launched in August 2016, providing assistance for expanding economic and trade exchanges and promoting connectivity between the two countries. This train starts from Hai'an Logistics Base in Nantong, leaves at Khorgos Port in Xinjiang, and finally arrives at Hailaton, Afghanistan. The source of goods for the train covers Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places, providing new logistics options for foreign trade enterprises in the surrounding areas to go global to Central Asia, and offering new opportunities for China and Arab countries to further expand economic and trade exchanges and deepen practical cooperation....

In 2023, the freight volume of China-Europe freight trains passing through the Erenhot Port in Inner Mongolia exceeded 3 million tons, reaching 3.35 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 30.29%. The total value of goods transported reached 51.3 billion yuan, up 37.39% year-on-year.