Xinhua Net reported from Shanghai on 11 November 2026, citing China Railway Shanghai Group, that on 10 November a sea-rail train left Shanghai's Luchaogang container terminal for Huzhou West. With that departure, Shanghai's sea-rail volume in 2026 surpassed 1 million TEU, reaching the mark 25 days earlier than in 2025.
The railway group said its Nanxiang marshalling yard has been working closely with the Luchaogang terminal and Shanghai Port Sea-Rail Intermodal Co. to coordinate loading, unloading and vessel schedules. Luchaogang has set up a dispatch center and a joint office for railway, port and stevedoring teams, moving rail-yard functions closer to the port to ease the last-mile handoff into the port and to tighten unloading, transfer and onward moves between Luchaogang and Yangshan Deep Water Port.
Infrastructure upgrades have raised Luchaogang's average handling speed to about three minutes per box, with annual handling capacity of about 1.3 million TEU. By refining the timetable, Nanxiang has increased the scheduled Nanxiang-Luchaogang frequency to 20 pairs a day, with a daily peak of 22 pairs. A mix of regular block trains and loose-car operations adds nearly 90,000 TEU of annual capacity, the report said. The sea-rail network already covers more than 40 cities in 10 provincial-level regions, and services are running stably.
Chen Songdi, manager of the multimodal section in China Railway Shanghai Group's logistics division, said that with support from relevant Shanghai municipal departments, China Railway Container Transport and Shanghai International Port Group, Shanghai's sea-rail arrivals and departures this year are expected to exceed 1.2 million TEU, up 11.7% year on year. The group plans to add more trains to destinations in the Yangtze River Delta, the middle Yangtze and central and western China, including customized block trains, to draw more hinterland cargo.