The China-Africa Rail-Sea Express Company, owned by the Zhuzhou Modern Logistics Group, recently established its logistics centers and overseas warehouses in Nigeria and Egypt. Zhuzhou has been striving to construct an Africa-oriented trade network based on production-logistics integration, to facilitate trade and business with Africa.

Chen Huiqing, deputy secretary of the CPC Zhuzhou Municipal Committee and Zhuzhou mayor, unveils the nameplate of the Nigeria Logistics Center and the Greenroad Nigeria Overseas Warehouse of the China-Africa Rail-Sea Express.

The Hunan-Guangdong-Africa Rail-sea intermodal transport channel is China’s first rail-sea intermodal transportation route linking to Africa, and also one of Hunan’s five international logistics channels. The route starts from Zhuzhou as an assembly center, joined by Hengyang and Chenzhou as two sub-centers. The channel will transport imported and exported Hunan goods and goods from other provinces in the central and western regions of China to ports in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area by train. From there, these goods will be shipped to Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.

The China-Africa Rail-Sea Express Nigeria Logistics Center is located in the Lagos Free Zone of Nigeria. The center is scheduled to be put into operation in January2025. The exported goods from China will be transported through the Hunan-Guangdong-Africa Rail-sea intermodal transport channel to Lekki Port, Nigeria, and then transferred to the logistics center by a short-distance shuttle service, and unloaded and sorted into the bonded warehouse. Storage, simple processing, entrepot trade, and some value-added services are provided in accordance with client demands. The goods to be exported from Nigeria can be stored at the bonded warehouse of the logistics center in advance, to ensure stock control for Chinese importers.

The logistics center in Egypt is situated in Cairo. The warehouse of the center has multiple functions, including storage, transport, loading and unloading, distribution, and logistics information management of goods. As a central warehouse of the China-Africa Rail-Sea Express in Egypt, the logistics center will provide unified distribution service and deliver goods to Cairo and surrounding cities.

责编：冯宇轩

一审：冯宇轩

二审：唐煜斯

三审：秦慧英

来源：株洲日报