Hard workers in the scorching heat

Fully loaded containers

Loading goods into containers

On August 2, the summer heat was at peak with scorching sun. On the cargo platform in the warehouse of the Yiwu-based Xingye International Freight Forwarding Company, porter Yu Gaofeng and his partner moved the cargo weighing several tens of kilograms from the pallet to the container that was about to be sent to Germany. Filling this 60-cubic-meter container requires 50 pallets of cargo and takes about three hours.

Due to the heat, Mr. Yu needs to take pauses and hydrate from time to time.

“The goods come from all over the country, and once we load the containers, the trucks will move to Yiwu West Railway Station to load onto the Yiwu-Xinjiang-Europe CRE trains,” said Mr. Yu. He also explained that this year’s business is going well. Warehouses are constantly loaded and emptied for shipments. Work has gotten so busy that he has to rush to the warehouse to load goods at 4:00 a.m. every day. He needs to load five or six containers a day, which keeps him busy until 8:00 p.m. The goods he helps load are generally transported to Germany, Spain, Russia, and five Central Asian countries.

So far this year, the Yiwu Platform of the CRE trains has launched 1044 convoys, averaging a daily departure of more than five trains. Since 2013, the cumulative shipment volume has exceeded 6,000 trains, and the shipment volume has reached 498,000 TEUs. (Text and photo by Wu Fengyu—Yiwu Business Daily, English text edited by Kendra Fiddler)

8月2日，经过太阳炙烤，天气已是非常闷热。在义乌市星夜国际货运代理公司仓库的货台上，搬运工于高峰跟搭档将重达几十斤的货物，从托盘搬起依次整齐码放到即将发往德国的集装箱里。装满这个60立方米的集装箱，需要50托盘的货物，用时3小时。

因天气炎热，于高峰在搬货空隙不时要补水，一大壶水“咕噜”几下就喝了个精光。眼看汗珠就要流进眼眶时，他挽起T恤狠狠一擦，黑色的T恤早已湿透。

“这些货物来自全国各地，我们装到集装箱后，集卡车会短驳到铁路义乌西站，搭乘‘义新欧’中欧班列发往沿线国家。”于高峰拿起记录的工作表说，今年生意比较火，仓库的货装一批、发一批、来一批，近段时间每天凌晨4点他就要赶到仓库装箱，一天要装五六个集装箱，一直要忙到晚上八九点钟。经他们装满的集装箱，被“义新欧”中欧班列运到德国、西班牙、俄罗斯以及中亚五国等地。

其实，于高峰的工作表，就像“钢铁驼队”的小小“晴雨表”。今年以来，中欧班列义乌平台已开行班列1044列，日均往返开行5列以上，发运量同比增长14.7%；自2013年以来累计开行突破6000列，发运量达49.8万标箱。（义乌商报  全媒体记者 吴峰宇 文/摄）