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China-Europe freight trade surges in 2018

China-Europe freight trains made 5,611 trips in the first 11 months of 2018, surging 72 percent compared with the same period last year. In 2017, more than 3,000 trips were made via China-Europe freight trains between cities on the two continents. The number is expected to double to 6,000 in 2018, according to a meeting held by the Transport Coordinating Committee of China Railway Corp's China-Europe project. As of November, the trains had connected 56 Chinese cities with 49 European cities across 15 European countries.

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