With hooting whistle piercing the silence, the first train loaded with coal containers arrived at northern China's Jingtang port on August 15, local media reported, marking coal trucks henceforth stepped down the stage of history.
The train was loaded 3,200 tonnes of coal in 100 open-top containers, equivalent to total transport volumes of 100 trucks.
The transportation-mode switch came after the government pledged more efforts to combat air pollution.
As of August 15, China had banned all diesel trucks to transport coal to Bohai Rim ports, in a bid to improve air quality in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and surrounding areas.
Besides benefiting the environment, railway transport can save large amount of logistics cost with increasing transport efficiency.
At present, Jingtang port has established several coal supply channels extending to interior bases like Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang.
(Writing by Alex Guo Editing by Harry Huo)
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