The freight transport export volume at the land port of Erenhot in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region increased by 41.4 percent year on year to 642,000 tonnes in the first quarter of this year during which the port logged 734 China-Europe freight trains, up by 25.7 percent year on year, said Yun Zhijun, director, Erenhot station’s dispatch desk.

Fifty seven China-Europe freight train routes pass through the Erenhot port, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border.

China has implemented a strict and extreme policy that includes strict lockdowns, mass testing and mandatory quarantine in state facilities. Mongolia is also suffering because of China’s COVID policy. Coal trucks hauled from Mongolia through Inner Mongolia’s Ganqimaodu border port have nose-dived after fresh COVID-19 cases were reported in the region. The number of daily coal trucks from Mongolia to Ganqimaodu fell below 100 on 7 December, 2021, down from 300 per day in the week ended 3 December.