On the morning of September 14, 2022, a container ship with a value of about 13 million US dollars slowly departed from Qingdao Port to the Russian Far East Port of Vladivostok, marking the "China-Russia Express Line" Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone— The maiden voyage of the Vladivostok port route.

"The 'China-Russia Express Line' sea-rail intermodal transport mode has the advantages of large capacity, timeliness, linkage, and stability compared with traditional railway transport. Through this mode of transport, the transport capacity can be increased by more than 3 times and half of transport can be saved. Time, improve transportation efficiency, and reduce the transportation cost of enterprises.” Zang Yuanqi, deputy director of the Industrial Development Department of the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone Management Committee, introduced that in addition, this model can maximize the transportation advantages of the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone by rail and sea, and further Improve the layout of the sea-rail combined transportation channel in the demonstration area, and unblock the international logistics channel for westward transportation from Qingdao to Europe.

Since 2022, the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone has newly opened the "Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Area-Mannheim, Germany" two-way special train and the "SCO Demonstration Area-Hungary-Serbia" special line. There are 523 columns, a year-on-year increase of 46.1%.Editor/Ma Xue