The freight train between the new Yizhou City and Dandong City, North Korea enters the second day of the normal operation on Tuesday (September 27).
According to the Yonhap News Agency, at 7:43 am on Tuesday, a freight train from Dandong to Xinyi Prefecture passed through the friendship bridge of the Yalu River Central DPRK.The compartment used by the train for cargo increased from 12 knots the previous day to 20 sections.It is reported that the white passenger carriage after locomotive is used for transportation medical supplies.
A local trader told reporters that this train is equipped with a necessity and drugs such as chemicals, food, clothing fabrics.According to a source of sources from the China Global Times, after the restarted by the China -DPRK railway freight, it first transported the urgently required materials such as pharmaceutical products and daily necessities to North Korea. The specific matters were usually decided to negotiate according to the communication channels between the trade departments of both parties.
After the outbreak of the crown disease, North Korea has blocked the border, and the China -DPRK freight train will be suspended from August 2020 and restarted on January 16 this year.After that, the epidemic spread again, Dandong was fully closed, and the cargo series stopped the shipping again on April 29.Although Dandong has not added new cases for 70 days since July 18, North Korea has announced the epidemic in the country in May, so freight has not been restarted.North Korea, which relies on maritime trade alone, has caused the lack of supplies to announce the end of the domestic epidemic on August 10, and requests China to restart railway transportation.
