A heavy-duty train loaded with 10,589 tonnes of coal in 105 wagons arrived at Xiangyang northern station in central China's Hubei province on January 10.
This is the first 10,000-tonne train that Haoji railway, the longest coal-dedicated line in China, has run since it started commissioning in 2019.
The train departs from Jingbian east station in northwestern China's Shaanxi province. After being broken down into two 5,000-tonne trains at the Xiangyang station, the coal was separately delivered to Hubei's Jiangling power plant and Fenyi power plant in neighboring Jiangxi province.
Since January 10, the Haoji railway will run two 10,000-tonne trains every day.
Haoji railway had delivered 55.04 million tonnes of the fossil fuel in 2021 to December 12, beating its annual target of 55 million tonnes 19 days ahead of schedule.
The 1,814-km railway starts from China's major coal mining base Inner Mongolia and delivers coal to Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan, where coal resources are scanty.
In the past two years, with the follow-up developments of supporting facilities along the line, Haoji's shipment capacity has improved significantly.
Open to traffic on September 28, 2019 with a designed capacity of more than 200 million tonnes annually, the railway only transported 25 million tonnes of coal in 2020 due to a lack of supporting facilities along the route, a far cry from the initial target of 60 million tonnes.
(Writing by Alex Guo Editing by Harry Huo)
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