At 11:00 am on April 8, a TIR truck operated by Zhengzhou Hongyi Transportation Co., Ltd. departed from the Henan TIR Hub in Zhengzhou Xinzheng Comprehensive Bonded Zone.The vehicle was carrying 6.66 metric tons of self-driving systems for agricultural machinery and related parts boxes on a 13,000-kilometer journey to Frankfurt, Germany's fifth-largest city.

SF Express, Asia's largest integrated logistics service provider, has launched its first China-Europe TIR full-truck load shipment crossing two seas. The truck will traverse Asia and Europe, crossing the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea and passing through nine countries over a journey of about 13,000 kilometers, with an estimated transit time of 35 days. The launch marks the opening of another efficient cross-border freight corridor from Henan to Europe and represents the industry's first China-Europe TIR full-truckload service crossing the two seas. (Chinese Source: Henan Daily Reporter: Yang Ling and Zhao Tongzeng/text Xu Cong/photo Correspondent: Ma Lingxiao Translator: Zhang Yahan Proofreader: Li Wenjing and Zhao Hanqing)