They will send the goods by
railroad.
他们将用铁路运输货物。
They were
railroaded into signing the agreement.
他们被迫仓促签定了协议。
As high-speed railroad car components, such as wheel bogies, traditionally require multilayer coating and multistep baking production processes, Covestro signed a cooperation agreement in early November with CRRC Tangshan Co Ltd — a subsidiary of State-owned CRRC Corp Ltd — to advance the development and implementation of low-VOC (volatile organic compounds) and low-carbon emission coating systems in the railway transportation industry, supporting the sector's transition toward more sustainable practices.
由于高速铁路车辆部件，例如车轮转向架，传统上需要多层涂层和多步骤烘焙生产工艺，科思创于11月初与中国中车集团有限公司的子公司中国中车唐山有限公司签署了一项合作协议，以推动铁路运输行业低VOC（挥发性有机化合物）和低碳排放涂层系统的开发和实施，支持该行业向更可持续的实践过渡。
Zhu, from Chinese railroad rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co Ltd, a Jilin province-based subsidiary of CRRC, became deputy chief designer of the trains when the company set up the design team in 2017.
来自中国铁路机车车辆制造商中车长春轨道车辆有限公司（中国中车吉林省的子公司）的朱在2017年公司成立设计团队时成为列车的副总设计师。
Li said the port's well-developed railroad networks and the presence of over 7,000 supporting businesses such as logistics firms, shipping services, warehouses and freight forwarders would enhance long-term planning, cargo management, job creation and integrated logistics services of the CTT.
李说，港口发达的铁路网和7000多家配套企业，如物流公司、航运服务、仓库和货运代理，将加强CTT的长期规划、货物管理、创造就业机会和综合物流服务。
In southwestern China's Chongqing, the east ring railroad construction has been completed recently, linking Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport with high-speed railway services.
在中国西南部的重庆，连接重庆江北国际机场和高速铁路服务的东环线铁路最近完工。
With a total length of 158.6 kilometers, the Chongqing east ring railroad connects eight stations and has a designed speed of 160 kilometers per hour, said China Railway 24th Bureau Group Corp Ltd (CR24), a State-owned enterprise that participated in the project.
参与该项目的国有企业中铁二十四局集团有限公司（CR24）表示，重庆东环线全长158.6公里，连接八个车站，设计时速160公里。
"The railroad is a major local project which aims to link major transportation hubs in the mountainous city and shortens transportation time for residents.
“这条铁路是当地的一个重大项目，旨在连接山区城市的主要交通枢纽，缩短居民的运输时间。
The German port's well-connected railroad networks and supporting businesses, such as shipping services, logistics firms, warehouses and freight forwarders, will help secure and enhance CTT's long-term planning, cargo-handling capacity, job creation and more integrated logistics services.
德国港口连接良好的铁路网络和支持性业务，如航运服务、物流公司、仓库和货运代理，将有助于确保和加强CTT的长期规划、货物处理能力、创造就业机会和更一体化的物流服务。
The German port's well-connected railroad networks and supporting businesses, such as shipping services, logistics firms, warehouses and freight forwarders, will help secure and enhance CTT long-term planning, cargo-handling capacity, job creation and more integrated logistics services.
德国港口连接良好的铁路网络和支持企业，如航运服务、物流公司、仓库和货运代理，将有助于确保和加强CTT的长期规划、货物处理能力、创造就业机会和更一体化的物流服务。
It said the company's big-ticket projects conducted in recent years include the construction of the China-Laos railway, the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railroad in Indonesia, and the Padma Bridge in Bangladesh, which not only played an exemplary role in those markets, but drew attention from other economies keen to stimulate their economies through infrastructure, developmental and utility projects.
Apart from planning to put the Padma Bridge, Bangladesh's largest infrastructure project, into actual service by the end of this year, CREC announced earlier this week the China-Laos railway, a railroad stretching over 1,000 kilometers from Southwest China's Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, to Vientiane in Laos, will launch service in December.
The railroad can improve traffic conditions in southern Nigeria and provide residents a convenient and comfortable way to travel.
"As the railroad has a station at Apapa Quays, the largest port in the country, it will play a role in boosting development of the port and promote export-oriented economic development in the region," he added.
It is a major supplier of railway oil and provides railroad maintenance and logistics services domestically.
"The Mombasa-Nairobi railroad is expected to reduce logistics cost by 40 percent compared to that of road transportation.
In Pakistan, his role was to complete basic tasks, such as line measurement, maintenance and training plans, in the shortest time and conduct training for local staff to ensure safe railroad operation.
Feng Hao, a researcher at the Institute of Comprehensive Transportation affiliated with the National Development and Reform Commission, said high-speed freight trains, new special trains for standardized containerized freight, cold chain logistics, and cross-border passenger and freight transportation, will be the next growth point for China's railway transport equipment sector, apart from regular and maglev high-speed trains, high-power locomotives, railroad trucks and urban rail transit vehicles.
It plans to have 200,000 km of track laid by the end of 2035, including about 70,000 km of high-speed track, China State Railway Group, the country's railroad operator, said in its latest national railway development plan released in August.
The planned length for this railroad, with a designated speed of 250 km per hour, is 900 kilometers.
Upon completion, the railroad will be Thailand's first high-speed railway running across the country and connecting with Laos' Vientiane until it reaches China's Kunming, Yunnan province, said Feng Hao, a researcher at the Institute of Comprehensive Transportation of the National Development and Reform Commission.
The railroad is part of the involved countries' plan for a network of links across Southeast Asia, that had its start in a memorandum of understanding on railway cooperation signed by the Chinese and Thai governments in 2014.
At the request of Thailand, China will also use a number of Thai engineers and architects to help transfer expertise in maintenance, operation and management of the high-speed railroad, according to information released by the Chinese embassy in Bangkok.
It plans to have 200,000 km of track laid by the end of 2035, including about 70,000 km of high-speed track, according to the latest national railway plan, issued in August by China State Railway Group, the country's top railroad operator.
In addition to fast growth of big-ticket industrial parks and infrastructure projects such as the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park and the China-Laos Railroad, the two sides should enrich regional industrial chains in key sectors like infrastructure, manufacturing, agriculture and healthcare over the next decade, Xu said.
The railroad is the first with a maximum speed of 350 kilometers per hour in Southeast Asia.
With construction expected to be completed by the end of 2021, the high-speed railroad will be the first of its kind in Indonesia as well as Southeast Asia.
Meanwhile, southeastern Finland's Kouvola railroad hub has also been rising in importance as the Finnish end of a rail freight route to and from Xi'an in Northwest China's Shaanxi province.
The number of China-Europe freight trains operated in the first half surged to 5,122, up 36 percent year-on-year, breaking the monthly record several times over, according to China State Railway Group Co Ltd, the nation's railroad operator.
The 143-kilometer-long railroad is being constructed by PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia-China, a consortium involving Indonesia's State-owned companies, and China's centrally-administrated State-owned enterprises including China Railway Signal and Communication Co, China Railway Rolling Stock Corp and Power Construction Corporation of China.
With construction expected to complete by the end of 2021, the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railroad, with a designed speed of up to 350 km/h, is the first such railway in Indonesia, as well as China's first overseas high-speed rail project.
The joint venture will also provide five years of maintenance for its Mexican client after the railroad opens.
The China-Europe railroad is able to transport a large amount of goods and medical supplies within 18 days maximum in both directions, said Feng Hao, a researcher at the National Development and Reform Commission's Institute of Comprehensive Transportation.
CHEC gains strength with projects worth $30 billionChina Harbor Engineering Co, a State-owned enterprise specializing in building port, marine engineering, dredging, railroad and airport construction projects, will begin building the Bogota Metro Line 1 project in April 2020.
The railroad passes through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania to Kaliningrad Oblast, a part of Russia on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, before entering the EU via the Mamonovo-Braniewo crossing.
The 1,318-kilometer railroad has reported profit growth for five consecutive years since 2014.
The railroad reported a net profit of 10.25 billion yuan in 2018, up 13 percent year-on-year, the filing said.
Once the railroad officially goes public, it will also help China State Railway Group Co Ltd gain more funds to optimize its giant assets and operational systems through the stock market.
CRSC Chairman Zhou Zhiliang said the laboratory will not only provide core technical support for the Hungary-Serbia railway, which is built to meet the standards of the European Train Control System level 2, but also share the rich experience of China's high-speed railroad development.
It is now eager to enhance its ability to offer a clutch of railway services as many countries have surging demand to either upgrade or expand their railroad networks.
Rolling stock maker China Railroad Rolling Stock Corp achieved a major milestone in its global efforts after it handed over two locally produced railcars to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) officials in Boston on Tuesday.
"The two Orange Line cars were made at China Railroad Rolling Stock Corp's factory in Springfield, Massachusetts.
It was the home of Wason Manufacturing Co, which was one of the largest makers of railroad cars and locomotives in the US from 1845 until the Great Depression.
As Chinese rail equipment is targeted for additional tariffs by the US as a result of the US trade representative's Section 301 investigation and determination, China Railroad Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), the world's largest rail car manufacturer, is showing its concern.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority, which oversees the railroad, approved a contract on Dec 13 with 3rd Track Constructors for the 9.8 miles of new track for the rail system east of New York City.
Affected by lower coal and other commodity prices, the number of cargo trains ordered by China Railway Corp, the State railroad operator, declined from 40,000 units in 2012 to 6,000 units in 2016, according to CRRC data.
Chinese companies involved included China Railway Group Ltd, China Communications Construction Co and Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group Co Ltd. "The integrated iron ore (project), deep water seaport and railroad development will create one of the lowest cost iron ore producers globally," said Sobotka.
The president gave instructions to form technical committees charged with evaluating the maintenance processes and specifying the needed spare parts for the trains and railroad infrastructure.
Shehata said China is preferred over European countries to develop Egypt's railroad infrastructure because China offers both expertise and finance for development projects and the costs are usually lower.
Egypt has spent billions of US dollars to develop its railroad and train systems, but the development projects did not yield good results because "we did invest in an old infrastructure," Shehata pointed out.
A dilapidated railroad network once hindered development of the third-largest economy in Latin America and caused accidents.
"Benefiting from the location, CRRC Zhuzhou can provide timely maintenance services for the new railroad and reach more countries in Southeast Asia," said Zhou, who has worked in the export business for more than two decades.
The group and its subsidiaries have been responsible for various projects in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East, with construction of more than 2,600 kilometers of highways; 180 bridges, with a total length of 105 km; 63 deep-water berths; 10 airports; and 754 container cranes already completed and 1,800 km of railroad under construction.
Infrastructure and business activities fostering synergy in development strategies among partner economiesA railroad between China and Laos, a vehicle plant in South Africa, a container port in Greece and a highway in Jamaica — these represent just a few of the projects constructed and managed as part of the Belt and Road Initiative over the past decade.
"The BRI has also deepened cooperation between China and Indonesia, involving multiple areas of collaboration, such as high-speed railroad and manufacturing," he added.
Yue Chen, general manager of the Jiangxi branch of Ningbo Port Railway Co Ltd — the service's operator for railroad operations — said his company will intensify efforts to boost cargo volumes for the intermodal express service.
China's inland cities will increase their use of the country's railroad links to seaports in order to boost exports to other signatory economies of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, which will help sustain the country's foreign trade growth this year, said government officials and market observers.
They have relied on existing railroad networks to transship their products to other RCEP markets.
"They will be operated on the Vitoria-Minas Railroad and Carajas Railroad operated by Vale.
Data released by the Israeli Ministry of Transport and Road Safety showed the country is now investing $4-5 billion each year to upgrade its transport infrastructure and is building airports, seaports, railroad tracks, roads and tunnels, which reflects the huge complementarity of the respective economic advantages between the two countries.
Railroad, metro lines and highways will be extended or built to facilitate travel and the delta's integration.
The Port of Hamburg's well-connected railroad networks and more than 7,000 supporting businesses like shipping services, logistics firms, warehouses and freight forwarders will help secure and enhance CTT long-term planning, cargo-handling capacity, job creation and more integrated logistics services.
This should support the upgrade of the railroad services' domestic and foreign assembly centers from points to hubs, in order to move more goods and create new jobs, Li said.
Hungary's Minister for Innovation and Technology Laszlo Palkovics said further steps for railroad infrastructure were taken by the Hungarian government to emphasize the country's role as a central European logistics hub.
"In 2019, Hungary invested in the development of the Ukrainian-Hungarian railroad corridor at Zahony as part of the Belt and Road Initiative－a route providing a solid guarantee for the future passage of China-Hungary freight trains.
"Hopefully, with those projects, Serbia will join the European highway and railroad network, and become more competitive in the international market. "
"It will increase the capacity of the modern railroad in Central Europe, and it is part of the Silk Road," Patai said.
Park, the associate director of the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, said their recent research examined Chinese investments in manufacturing, agro-processing, telecommunication and infrastructure projects in seven African countries, and found clear evidence of job creation, linkages to local suppliers and buyers, local subcontracting and even local copycat activities across sectors ranging from cotton and leather processing to railroad construction and operations and plastic waste recycling.
Apart from building both regular and maglev high-speed trains, high-power locomotives, railroad trucks and urban rail transit vehicles, Du said high-speed freight trains and 30,000-metric-ton heavy-duty trains, as well as new special trains for standardized containerized freight, cold chain logistics and cross-border freight transportation, will be the next growth point for China's railway transport equipment sector.
Han of Knorr-Bremse said opportunities abound in China thanks to well-developed high-speed railway networks, and a fast-growing metro market, so the company will enhance its partnership with CRRC and China State Railway Group Co, the country's largest rolling stock manufacturer and railroad operator, during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25).
China Railway Eighteenth Bureau Group Co, or CRCC18, a subsidiary of State-owned China Railway Construction Corp Ltd, began to lay track for a part of the Republic of Guinea's first modern railroad on Sunday to further upgrade the African nation's infrastructure facilities.
Chen said building this railroad will promote the modern railway network in Guinea and the further development of the railway network in West Africa, therefore promoting economic and social development of the entire continent.
A Japanese maglev train reached 603km/h on an experimental track in Yamanashi prefecture in 2015, and Japan plans to put maglev trains running at a maximum speed of 505 km/h into operation on the Chuo Shinkansen, a new rail line connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, in 2027, according to Central Japan Railway Co, the railroad's owner and operator.
Once completed, the 142-kilometer modern railroad will be the first in Southeast Asia capable of handling trains traveling at speeds of up to 350 kilometers per hour.
Boosted by surging trade volume, favorable policy measures brought by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement and other factors, Laos-China Railway Co Ltd, a Vientiane-based joint venture responsible for the operation of the railway's Laos section, announced in early August that since its opening in December, cross-border products transported by the railroad have exceeded 1 million metric tons.
Maglev refers to magnetic levitation, the principle applied by certain railroad systems that use magnets to float trains above the tracks.
Railway and maritime transport are the main channels for coal transportation across China, with railroad trains operating mostly in northern China and ships combined with trains transporting coal mostly to the country's southeast coastal areas.
They made the comments after China Railway Group Ltd, the main contractor for the project, announced on Tuesday that track construction of the 1,024-kilometer railroad, which connects Kunming in Yunnan province with the Lao capital Vientiane, was completed in Mengla county, Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture.
A train departing Kunming in the morning will arrive in Vientiane in the evening on the same day, according to China State Railway Group Co Ltd, the country's railroad operator.
As a docking project between the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative and Laos' strategy to convert itself from a landlocked country to a land-linked hub, the railroad project once again shows that China is capable of building railways in areas with difficult terrain and conditions, said Luo Yin, chairman of Yunnan Provincial Railway Investment Co Ltd, a main investor in the China-Laos railway project.
The whole railroad adopts Chinese railway technical standards and uses Chinese equipment.
In addition to boosting bilateral trade and shortening transportation time between China and Laos, the new railroad will better connect Laos with other economies participating in the BRI, as well as generate more jobs and attract global investors to the Southeast Asian nation, said Zhou Zhicheng, a researcher at the Beijing-based China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing.
The 143-kilometer long railroad is under construction by PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia-China, a consortium involving Indonesia's State-owned companies and China's central SOEs, including China Railway Signal and Communication Co, China Railway Rolling Stock Corp and Power Construction Corporation of China.
China's medical goods shipment via the railroad to Europe will not only offset logistics disruptions at sea and by air between the two sides, but also help European countries gain material supplies to ease the pressure on their national healthcare systems and assist their manufacturers to either resume or manage the work to produce enough industrial products and living materials, Li said.
The transcontinental railroad services have proved that they can help companies from both sides sustain business, because their imports are complementary, said Luo Renjian, a researcher at the National Development and Reform Commission's Institute of Transportation Research.
The State railroad operator said the number of trips from China to Europe in the meantime reached 1,049 with a total of 95,000 containers, while figures from Europe to China stood at 892 with 79,000 containers.
The China-Europe railroad is able to ship a large amount of goods and medical materials within 15 days to both sides.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of its takeover by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, Volvo has decided to further support the development of the Belt and Road Initiative through the China-Europe railroad.
The length of China's railroad lines in service has exceeded 139,000 km, including 35,000 km of high-speed rail, ranking first in the world.
Jinan-Qingdao railway receives $200m investment from foreign investorThe Kuwait Investment Authority's investment in the Jinan-Qingdao high-speed railroad in East China's Shandong province will propel more global investors to be part of big-ticket projects conducted by State-owned enterprises, analysts said on Friday.
"In addition to the Jinan-Qingdao high-speed railroad in Shandong, the first privately controlled high-speed railway line in China is expected to wrap up in 2021.
Thailand has no high-speed rail now, but the construction of the Bangkok-Nakhon Ratchasima high-speed railroad, which applied Chinese highspeed rail technology, has already begun and the second high-speed railroad that links Bangkok's two airports with U-Tapao Rayong-Pattaya International Airport is to follow.
Goods produced in Xinjiang and other Chinese provinces can be shipped to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and other 21 countries and regions through a collection center based in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital, which was set up by the Urumqi Railroad Bureau.
As a symbolic project of the Belt and Road Initiative, the Blue Line is the first electrified railroad and cross-sea light rail project in West Africa.
Haifa's port is the hub of transportation and industries in northern Israel, a railroad junction along the Mediterranean coast, an important part of global shipping, as well as a vital pitch point related to the BRI.
The information enabled the railroad authority in Chengdu, capital city of Sichuan, to take precautions and minimize the flood's disruption to regular rail service.
In less than a year, a number of industry leaders have made successful debuts on the STAR Market, including Beijing Kingsoft Office Software Inc, AI technology leader Montage Technology Co Ltd and railroad manufacturing behemoth China Railway Signal and Communication Corp. To further attract global industry leaders and more capital inflows, innovations should be made so that big names such as Huawei and COMAC can list part of their prime operations on the STAR Market, said Fan Yun, a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress and vice-chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce.