China lifts railway benchmark freight rate
2015-02-28A CRH train that runs on the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway leaves Tianjin South Railway Stationin North China's Tianjin, June 30, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]
China lifted basic freight railway rates by one cent and allowed an upper floating rangeof 10 percent at most, the country's top economic planner announced Friday.
China lifted basic freight railway rates by one cent and allowed an upper floating rangeof 10 percent at most, the country's top economic planner announced Friday.
Preferential freight rates for fertilizers and phosphate ore are also scraped and the governmentno longer charges enterprises the comprehensive logistics fee for carrying large commodities.
The rate change aims to make the railway cargo pricing mechanism more flexible andencourage more social capital inflows into railway construction and will not impact ticket prices, according to NDRC.