HAVING opened three international logistics routes last year, central China's Chongqing provincial status city will open another major international trade lane that will pass through Kunming and then reach Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean this year, reports Xinhua.

    Chongqing Customs is also building an e-commerce processing transnational trade settlement centre and has accelerated the construction of airport functional zone of bonded port, as well as Phase II construction of Xiyong Comprehensive Bonded Area this year.

    The new main international trade route will start from Chongqing, and pass Guiyang and Kunming then reaching Dali through Chongqing-Guizhou Railway, crossing the border from Ruili, then passing Mandalay, a city in the middle of Myanmar, from there by ship from the Port of Kyaukpyu, Arakan, western Myanmar, finally reaching the Indian Ocean and Middle East.

    Goods delivered by this main sea route will only takes 30 days for an 18,000-kilometre transport from Chongqing to Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands.

(Source:http://www.schednet.com)