Huangpu Customs reported an increase in the number of international freight train departures in the first two months of this year.

A total of 62 international freight trains carrying 6,810 standard TEU containers /20-foot equivalent units/ of cargo were handled by the staff of the aforementioned Customs Service, up 26.5 percent and 45.4 percent compared with the same period last year.

Huangpu Customs Service oversees customs affairs in major production and export areas of Guangdong Province, including the city of Dandong. Guangdong, including Dongguan City and Huangpu and Zengcheng districts in Guangzhou, the administrative center of the province. Under its customs control, the first freight train was dispatched from Guangdong Province in 2013. The first freight train of China-Europe international rail transportation was dispatched from Guangdong in 2013.

In 2023, 444 China-Europe freight trains were dispatched under its control, four times as many as in 2020.