China-Europe freight train (Changsha) dual-hub train made its debut and entered the "hub-to-hub" stage

China News Service, Changsha, November 9th (Reporter Lu Yi) The China-Europe Railway Express (Changsha) dual-hub train departed from Changsha North Railway Station on the 9th and headed for Bererast Station in Russia. This is the first train organized in the "dual hub" model after Changsha was approved as the national China-Europe freight train assembly center, which means that the China-Europe freight train (Changsha) has been upgraded from "point-to-point" to "hub-to-hub" operations.

This train is fully loaded with "Made in Hunan" products and leaves the country through Manzhouli Port. The entire transportation time is about 15 days. The so-called "dual hub" means that the Chinese side relies on Changsha, the national gathering center for China-Europe freight trains, and the overseas side connects to large hub stations. Berelast station is an important logistics center railway station in Russia. Both ends are no longer simple sites, but super nodes with the ability to collect goods, warehousing, distribution, and scheduling.

On the outbound journey, Hunan's local and surrounding goods sources are gathered at the Changsha hub, unified and grouped, and the trains are driven to overseas hubs; upon arrival, they are distributed to other regions and cities. On the return journey, overseas goods are first collected at overseas hubs, transported back to Changsha in a single train, and then distributed to various places. With one main line running through and one network radiating, the dual-hub trains have upgraded China-Europe trains from "linear transportation" to a channel network that "combines trunk lines and branches, integrates transmission and distribution".

In 2025, Changsha was approved as the national China-Europe freight train assembly center. The first launch of the dual-hub train marks the transformation of the assembly center from a "transit channel" to an "organizational hub". In the future, as the interconnection between Changsha and overseas hubs such as Minsk and Poznan continues to intensify, and the full timetable trains and dual-hub networks are deeply integrated, Changsha's organizational hub function will further emerge.