CCTV News:The Ministry of Transport held a press conference on October 31, and the relevant person in charge introduced the relevant situation of optimizing and adjusting the transportation structure in China, saying that it would improve the backbone channels of multimodal transport and strengthen transportation convergence.
In recent years, the Ministry of Transport and the National Development and Reform Commission have organized the construction of multimodal transport demonstration projects, and vigorously developed service modes such as sea-rail transport, land-air transport, public-rail transport and international transport. The data shows that in 2021, the first three batches of 70 multimodal transport demonstration projects completed about 6.2 million TEUs of container multimodal transport and opened more than 450 intermodal lines.
Han Jinghua, Deputy Director of the Department of Transport Services, Ministry of Transport:Focusing on the upgrading of railway transportation capacity and the upgrading of water transport system, we will speed up the completion of shortcomings. Highlight the leading position of railway in bulk cargo transportation and vigorously improve railway transportation capacity.
Han Jinghua said that it is necessary to greatly improve the comprehensive utilization efficiency of heavy-haul railways such as Haoji and Wazi, speed up the development of open-top box transportation, and promote the "revolution of iron" and "scattered collection" of bulk materials such as coal and ore. In 2021, 1.95 billion tons of railway coal was delivered nationwide, up 8.3% year-on-year.
In addition, the Ministry of Transport has also accelerated the improvement of inland water transport network, promoted the construction of port collection and distribution railways, and vigorously promoted the development of river-sea direct and river-sea combined transport. The data shows that "revolving iron" and "revolving water" have achieved remarkable results. The proportion of railway freight volume in the total social freight volume has increased from 7.8% in 2017 to 9.2% in 2021, the waterway freight volume has increased by 23.4% compared with 2017, and the road collection and distribution volume of bulk cargo in coastal ports has decreased by more than 400 million tons compared with 2017. The coal collection ports in 17 major ports, including Bohai Rim and Yangtze River Delta, have all been changed to railway and water transportation. In 2021, the port completed 7.54 million TEUs of container-iron-water combined transport, double that of 2017.