The southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu received its first consignment of frozen German pork via rail, shaving more than 40 days from the time it would typically take for delivery by ship to the world’s top consumer of the meat.
The Chengdu Daily newspaper reported today that the shipment took just 13 days travel the 12,000 kilometers from Nuremberg, via Poland, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan, entering into China’s Xinjiang region before heading to Chengdu International Railway Port.
The faster rail route enables frozen meat to reach into the vast hinterland of China with fewer risks of food becoming contaminated, the paper said.
Hmm….wonder how much energy was conserved in the forty days of transit and electric condensers for the freezers to keep the meat frozen..? SO…….how will this impact American Pork prices…? Should make them cheaper because China should be getting all over their pork form Germany. Just how much pork does China buy from America..?
What enegines are used on these trains? Siemens or GE..?
A lot. So much so they bought Smithfield Food, world’s biggest pork producer.
I would imagine the same as freezers and I thought freezers are very efficient, more than fridges
China is the world’s largest pork importer this year. Is 13 days on a rail car really that much faster than a boat? It has to be frozen in both modes. Interesting that the pork is being shipped to the province which supposedly is the leading pork producer in China.
The meat in the photo appears to be produced in China and packaged for sale in Hong Kong