Construction on Asia’s largest container rail station to start

Construction on Asia’s largest container rail station to start Construction is expected to begin soon on Asia’s largest container freight rail station in the inland Chinese city of Chengdu, the China Daily reported Monday.
   The station is one of 18 planned by the Chinese government throughout the country as the railway system goes through a massive expansion. The station will have a capacity of 2.5 million TEUs and would serve ports in all three of the port clusters on China’s south, east and northeast coasts — direct rail lines are being built or already exist to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Shanghai and Tianjin. It’s expected to cut transit time from Chengdu, in southwestern China, to those destinations from four to six days to 48 hours.