China's rail-sea intermodal trains have made 4,500 trips along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the first six months of this year.

State media reported that this is aligned with mid-year targets.

From January to June this year, the freight trains launched through the corridor carried 225,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers, an increase of 9% from the same period last year, Xinhua said.

The New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor is a trade and logistics passage jointly built by provincial-level regions in western China and ASEAN members launched in 2017.

The rail-sea intermodal service has expanded to cover 61 cities in 17 provincial-level areas in China.