China News Sichuan, citing Chengdu Daily Jinguan on 8 November 2026, reported that on 7 November Luhai Yungang, an affiliate of Sichuan Port Investment Group, signed an investment agreement with the Alashankou city government in Xinjiang to build the Alashankou Cross-border Logistics and Bonded Processing Industrial Park. The project is described as a demonstration hub for a Sichuan provincial state-owned enterprise at a border port and a key node on Sichuan's west-opening corridor, meant to serve quality outbound Sichuan-made goods and quality inbound global cargo.
The planned site covers more than 800 mu, with total investment of 1 billion yuan. After it starts operation, annual output value is expected to exceed 5 billion yuan and annual comprehensive throughput more than 6 million tonnes. Planned facilities include a rail dedicated line, a mineral processing area, grain and oil silos, a container yard, bonded consolidation warehouses and a cross-border highway consolidation center, plus whole-train gauge-change facilities for iron ore, grain and containers. The focus is rail logistics, bulk commodity trade and a Sichuan-made, trade-integrated cross-border supply chain.
Once online, the rail side is expected to add loading and dispatch handling capacity of 6 trains a day and about 6 million tonnes a year, with metal minerals handling capacity at the port rising by 2 million tonnes a year. The park will use on-site gauge change combining overseas broad gauge and domestic standard gauge, which can save more than 50 million yuan a year in lifting and short-haul transfer costs. Combined with Sichuan Port Investment's multimodal system, export in-transit time versus traditional China-Europe rail can be compressed by 3 to 5 days.
On the highway side, the park will add large road-freight consolidation and warehouse turnover capacity. Cross-border highway truck LCL, drop-and-hook and customs-handoff efficiency is expected to rise by more than 25%, and truck dwell at the port to fall by nearly 30%. The project will link with the China (Sichuan)-Kazakhstan goods-and-trade cloud port abroad, the Kazakhstan Chengdu land-port terminal in Xinjin, and the Land-Sea New Corridor Chengdu South collection and distribution center, forming a loop of inland comprehensive hub, border-port node and overseas dispatch base. These figures are planned capacity after the park comes online. Buyers should confirm actual services with the operators.