First "banana train" departs from Laos to China

Published Dec 8, 2022

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A historic first, a freight train carrying 25 cold chain containers, each loaded with 500 tons of fresh Laotian bananas, has departed from Vientiane, the capital of Laos, bound for Changsha, a city in China's Hunan province. This marks the inaugural direct 'banana train' journey to a Chinese city since the China-Laos Railway was commissioned a year ago. This transportation method is part of the 'One Way, Two Stations' project, a new initiative aimed at boosting agricultural trade between China and Laos, with an annual target of surpassing 1 million tons. Bananas are the second most significant agricultural export for Laos, with the country earning US$141 million from banana exports alone in the first half of 2022.

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A freight train carrying 25 cold chain containers loaded with 500 tons of fresh Laotian bananas left the train station of the Laos capital, Vientiane, on Wednesday. The train will travel the entire China-Laos Railway to reach Changsha, the center of Hunan province in the interior of China. This is the first "banana train" to go directly to a specific Chinese city since the Sino-Laos Railway entered service a year ago. The "banana train" is also the first train within the scope of the "One Way, Two Stations" project launched this year by the Hunan provincial government and Laos. The two sides aim to achieve an average of over 1 million tons of agricultural product trade volume ...

Source: Haberler Agri News