China News reported from Guangzhou on 18 October 2026 that China Railway Guangzhou Group said on 17 October that over the past five years its freight business has moved from a traditional production-style transport model toward modern service-oriented logistics. Freight dispatched across the group exceeded 600 million tonnes, 26% more than in the previous five years, and daily loading passed 8,000 wagons on 20 occasions.
Over the five years the group ran 56,000 freight trains, including more than 6,500 international trains, three times the number in the previous five years. Using 10 international rail corridors (east, central, west and others), products from Guangdong, Hunan and Hainan can reach more than 20 Eurasian countries and over 40 cities. China-Europe trains grew from 889 in 2021 to 1,298 in 2025, up 46%, with up to nine departures on peak days.
The group has expanded rail-sea, rail-river, rail-air and rail-road intermodal services. 'One document' (single bill) service has been rolled out at coastal and inland river ports, with intermodal trains running from the Greater Bay Area to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and from the Pearl River Delta to Yangtze River ports. It also ran the first customised train after island-wide special customs operations began in the Hainan Free Trade Port.
On infrastructure, the group built eight logistics bases of about 1,000 mu or more, including Guangzhou International Port and Pinghu South, and raised the share of key port areas with rail access from 64% to 82%. Under a port-station integration model, Guangzhou Port operates the Nansha Port South rail yard so cargo can move directly between ship and train. The group also runs scheduled 'passenger-style' freight trains, including timetabled China-Europe services and Greater Bay Area demonstration trains to Beijing and Shanghai that accept even a single container.