China is on track to raise coal rail transport to 2.81 billion tonnes by 2020

China is on track to raise coal rail transport to 2.81 billion tonnes by 2020, 650 million tonnes more than the annual delivery in 2017, said the country's railway runner China Railway Corp.

To achieve the ambitious transport increase target, the company has developed specified timetable and route maps, and implemented related supporting measures.

 
The company will add 10,000-tonne heavy-hauled trains on Tanghu (Tangshan-Hohhot) and Wari (Luliang-Rizhao) lines. The two lines' annual transport capacity will reach to 150 million and 100 million tonnes in 2020.
 
When the Inner Mongolia-Jiangxi railway (known as Menghua Line), a coal-dedicated rail line through Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, is commissioned in 2020, there will be four coal rail lines in China with 10,000-tonne trains.
 
The company also planned to raise annual transport capacity by 20 million tonnes for Lanyu (Lanzhou-Chongqing) and Xicheng (Xi'an-Chendu) railways; and enhance delivery capacity by another 12 million tonnes for Ningxi (Nanjing-Xi'an) and Houyue (Houma-Rizhao) railways.
 
The company has reached or intended to reach long- and middle-term transport contracts totaling over 2 billion tonnes of commodity this year, accounting for half of its annual transport volume, up 30% from a year ago.

 
It also planned to reach 4.79 billion of commodity transport by 2020 through railway construction. That is 30% more than the transport figure last year.
 
In January-August of this year, China transported 2.08 billion tonnes of commodity, up 7.7% from a year ago. The phased goal to scale up railway transport has been achieved.