China's Shenyang opens new freight route for RCEP countries

Customs officers pass a China-Europe freight train at the Shenyang East Railway Station in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, in this file picture from June 16, 2022. - Xinhua

SHENYANG (Xinhua): A train carrying cargo containers from Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) member countries, including Laos, Vietnam and Japan, departed from the Chengtong Trade Port Free Trade Zone in Shenbei New District, Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, on Saturday (March 18) morning.

The train marks the opening of a new international freight route for RCEP member countries through Shenyang to Europe via entrepot trade.