New trade route brings benefits to China and Europe

BERLIN - A truck driver waits at the Duisburg Intermodal Terminal for a freight train from China. He is one of hundreds of truck drivers waiting at the largest of the nine terminals of the Port of Duisburg in western Germany to ship a China Railway Express-branded container.

The 50-year-old Macedonian, who gave his name only as Lusso, said the freight train running between China and Duisburg was a great help to his business.

Business in Duisburg, the world's largest inland port, began to pick up after the rail freight service was launched in 2011, and remarkably boosted by the Belt and Road Initiative from 2013 onward.