CHINA Railway Express (CRE), a railway express service provider owned by the Ministry of Railways, has been promoting its time-definite service, Xinhua reports.
    The service includes next-day delivery and third-day delivery, by which cargo will be delivered to customers by 5pm the next day or the third day.
    CRE has deployed 670 runs of trains on the time-definite service and set up cargo collecting spots at domestic 97 cities. Destination covers 144 cities, 127 of them support next-day delivery.
    In March, revenue from time-definite service in Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shanghai, Jinan, Harbin, Taiyuan and Nanchang were all more than doubled compared to the same month in 2011.
    CRE plans to strengthen the promotion of the service and expand its network as its next step.

(source:shipping online)