Land-sea freight service sends agricultural donations to Singapore

A train loaded with a batch of donated agricultural products departed from southwest China's Chongqing Municipality bound for Singapore Sunday.

The cargo donated by Chongqing's Zhongxian County, consisting of 13 tonnes of fresh tangerines, 500 boxes of dried bamboo shoots, 300 boxes of instant vermicelli and 50 boxes of fermented bean curd, will arrive in Singapore via the China-Singapore Southern Transport Corridor, a trade and logistics passage linking western Chinese provincial regions with Singapore.

It represents a transport breakthrough of agricultural donations from Chongqing to Singapore. The land-sea route has cut the need to change containers and shortened the transport period by no longer transporting goods from Chongqing to east China for offshore shipping.

"When the COVID-19 crisis was severe in Zhongxian, our friends from Singapore actively helped us purchase medical supplies, timely meeting our urgent needs in the fight against the epidemic. Now, at a time when they need help, we should definitely do what we can," said Liu Shu, director of Zhongxian's commission of commerce.

By the end of February, the land-sea freight route had seen a total of 1,674 trips, transporting goods worth 910 million U.S. dollars, mainly cars and auto parts, architectural ceramics and chemical raw materials.