CCTV News:With the promotion of key projects in various places, freight logistics continues to grow, and the demand for production materials such as cement, steel and coal is also increasing. The railway department allocates transportation capacity to fully guarantee the demand for material transportation.
Key construction projects in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region — — At the construction site of the new airport in Hohhot, the main building of the terminal building has entered the sprint stage, and the construction workers are stepping up the construction. At present, the terminal building has entered the construction stage of the main steel structure, and building materials such as concrete and steel are constantly entering the construction site. Zhang Xuedong is the logistics director of the main cement supplier in the construction of the new airport, and ensuring the supply of materials for key projects has always been his most important job.
Zhang Xuedong, Manager of Logistics Department of Inner Mongolia Tianhao Cement Group Co., Ltd.:With the large-scale start of concrete pouring, the monthly (cement) demand has increased by more than 10%, and now more than 2,000 tons of cement are supplied to this project every day.
In order to ensure the smooth construction of the new airport, cement production enterprises and construction units have built special mixing stations, and all vehicles and personnel involved in transportation are subject to closed-loop management. Railway staff timely meet the site demand to ensure the timely and sufficient supply of cement and concrete.
In addition to meeting the supply of materials for the new airport, the demand for materials for engineering projects in various places is also increasing. In the past few days, orders for cement from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have increased significantly. Zhang Xuedong is also busier. In order to reduce the risk of epidemic situation and reduce the flow of people brought by logistics, railway transportation has also increased significantly. Every day, Zhang Xuedong has to dock the railway transportation arrangement according to the orders of downstream enterprises.
Zhang Xuedong, Manager of Logistics Department of Inner Mongolia Tianhao Cement Group Co., Ltd.:Our orders have been increasing since April, especially the outbound traffic accounts for 70%. In April, we sent 110,000 tons of cement to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by railway, and our (transportation) demand is expected to be around 150,000 tons in May. It mainly reduces the epidemic risk of automobile transportation, and it can be loaded today and arrived tomorrow.
In order to ensure the smooth supply chain of materials, the railway freight department of Hohhot has issued a "one-price" preferential policy for the transportation of raw materials such as cement and steel, which has reduced the enterprise by 5%— 30% of the transportation cost. Open up special cement loading and unloading lines and special cargo spaces, make overall arrangements for special vehicles within the overall scope, and provide special tank cement transport trains for cement production enterprises, giving priority to organizing transportation.
Guo Xiaofeng, Deputy Director of Shaliang Logistics Park of Hohhot Bureau of China Railway:According to the characteristics of cement transportation, we allocate loading and unloading machines, and the cement tank can be directly put on the special flat car from the car, and the time for loading and unloading a train of cement is reduced by 3 hours from the past 6 hours.
Inner Mongolia’s coal production accounts for a quarter of the country, and it is also one of the main producing areas of steel, fertilizer and chemical products. Hohhot Bureau of China Railway has optimized the transportation organization, fully tapped the freight capacity of Tangbao, Haoji, Jitong and beijing-baotou railway, and improved the transportation efficiency. The daily average freight volume was 733,000 tons, up 12.7% year-on-year, among which the transportation volume of key materials such as coal, building materials, fertilizers, steel and petrochemical products increased significantly.
Shiping Li, Deputy Section Chief, Marketing Department, Freight Department, China Railway Hohhot Bureau:In response to market demand, we focus on strengthening the transportation of coal, fertilizer, cement, steel and other production raw materials in the three northeastern provinces, Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan region and Shandong, Henan and other places. Among them, the Tangshan-Baotou line runs more than 30 trains with an average daily output of 10,000 tons of coal.