On September 4, a freight train carrying a set of crude oil tank containers departed from Kuitun Station in Xinjiang, heading for Jinling Town Station in Shandong, marking the successful completion of the country's first crude oil trial transport using this new equipment.
The newly deployed 20-foot crude oil tank containers, independently developed by China State Railway Group, boast a total weight of 30.48 tonnes and a payload capacity of 25.28 tonnes, with a volume of 32 cubic meters. Designed to international standards, their external dimensions match those of standard 20-foot 35-tonne general-purpose containers, allowing for seamless transfer between railway flatcars, road trailers, and container ships.
This marks the first time domestically developed tank containers have been specifically engineered for crude oil transportation, offering a versatile and efficient solution for the logistics of this critical energy resource across multiple modes of transport.
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