Xinjiang's railway has launched its first container coal special train, eliminating concerns about wear and tear from wind and rain

Transporting lump coal in containers was something that was unimaginable in the past. In the eyes of Li Junjie, the business manager of Xinjiang Aolongda Energy Co., LTD., in the past, the types of goods transported in containers were very strict. Now, through dedicated equipment, containers filled with coal are sent to various places by train.

In April this year, the marketing staff of Korla Freight Center took the initiative to visit Aolongda Company to introduce the new freight reform product of China Railway Corporation that allows the use of containers to transport coal lumps: 'Container coal transportation is much cheaper than open car coal transportation and there is no transportation loss.' However, Oronda Company hesitated after learning that transporting by container would require an investment of several million. The Korla Freight Center has visited the company many times for in-depth negotiations, promoting the economic and convenient advantages of container coal transportation. They have also used a comparison method of transportation volume and freight rate to calculate profits and costs with them by counting on their fingers, promising to provide sufficient transportation capacity guarantee and strictly fulfill the delivery time limit. At the same time, they have helped the company contact downstream customers for negotiation and negotiation. It has broken down the information barriers between upstream and downstream supply and demand customers.

The patient and meticulous work moved the company's management, who immediately decided to transport all the coal by railway. Subsequently, they invested over 7 million yuan to establish a container loading system and purchased equipment and facilities such as straddling cranes, forklifts, and dump trucks. During this period, the Korla Freight Center conducted on-site investigations at the company's coal container loading base on multiple occasions, jointly studied the installation of equipment and facilities, and provided technical guidance, creating conditions for the smooth opening and operation of coal container transportation work.

To ensure the smooth operation of the first coal container transportation, the Korla Freight Center has worked together with one heart and one mind, providing services in aspects such as booking containers, booking vehicles, loading containers, weighing and inspecting goods, loading vehicles, and safety monitoring. During on-site operations, the center's leading officials personally led the team, meticulously organized and strengthened guidance, striving to improve efficiency. The meticulous and thoughtful service has won the center a good reputation.

Coal is a material with high losses. When a strong wind blows, all that is blown away is money. Container freight is cheap and has high economic benefits. Li Junjie, the business manager of Aolongda Energy Co., LTD., was very pleased. This is the operation of container coal transportation by Korla Freight Center, which is of great significance for the center to expand marketing and explore new sources of goods in the future. Liu Hongjiu, the general manager of Korla Freight Center, said that under the current situation where various logistics methods are developing rapidly, using containers to transport coal has opened up a new way for the center to further explore new categories of containerized goods, increase new products for railway transportation, develop new sources of goods, and provide continuous supply guarantees for railway transportation.