They will send the goods by railroad.
他们将用铁路运输货物。
They were railroaded into signing the agreement.
他们被迫仓促签定了协议。
As high-speed railroad car components, such as wheel bogies, traditionally require multilayer coating and multistep baking production processes, Covestro signed a cooperation agreement in early November with CRRC Tangshan Co Ltd — a subsidiary of State-owned CRRC Corp Ltd — to advance the development and implementation of low-VOC (volatile organic compounds) and low-carbon emission coating systems in the railway transportation industry, supporting the sector's transition toward more sustainable practices.
由于高速铁路车辆部件，例如车轮转向架，传统上需要多层涂层和多步骤烘焙生产工艺，科思创于11月初与中国中车集团有限公司的子公司中国中车唐山有限公司签署了一项合作协议，以推动铁路运输行业低VOC（挥发性有机化合物）和低碳排放涂层系统的开发和实施，支持该行业向更可持续的实践过渡。
Even though there are roads, bridges, railroads and various other office buildings in many countries that stand testimony to the capabilities of Chinese companies, CRCEG said it will gear up efforts to participate in more projects such as urban facilities and "new infrastructure" development in markets involved in the BRI in the next step.
尽管许多国家的道路、桥梁、铁路和各种其他办公楼证明了中国公司的能力，但CRCEG表示，下一步将加大力度，参与“一带一路”倡议所涉及市场的更多项目，如城市设施和“新基础设施”开发。
Zhu, from Chinese railroad rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co Ltd, a Jilin province-based subsidiary of CRRC, became deputy chief designer of the trains when the company set up the design team in 2017.
来自中国铁路机车车辆制造商中车长春轨道车辆有限公司（中国中车吉林省的子公司）的朱在2017年公司成立设计团队时成为列车的副总设计师。
Li said the port's well-developed railroad networks and the presence of over 7,000 supporting businesses such as logistics firms, shipping services, warehouses and freight forwarders would enhance long-term planning, cargo management, job creation and integrated logistics services of the CTT.
李说，港口发达的铁路网和7000多家配套企业，如物流公司、航运服务、仓库和货运代理，将加强CTT的长期规划、货物管理、创造就业机会和综合物流服务。
In southwestern China's Chongqing, the east ring railroad construction has been completed recently, linking Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport with high-speed railway services.
在中国西南部的重庆，连接重庆江北国际机场和高速铁路服务的东环线铁路最近完工。
With a total length of 158.6 kilometers, the Chongqing east ring railroad connects eight stations and has a designed speed of 160 kilometers per hour, said China Railway 24th Bureau Group Corp Ltd (CR24), a State-owned enterprise that participated in the project.
参与该项目的国有企业中铁二十四局集团有限公司（CR24）表示，重庆东环线全长158.6公里，连接八个车站，设计时速160公里。
"The railroad is a major local project which aims to link major transportation hubs in the mountainous city and shortens transportation time for residents.
“这条铁路是当地的一个重大项目，旨在连接山区城市的主要交通枢纽，缩短居民的运输时间。
The German port's well-connected railroad networks and supporting businesses, such as shipping services, logistics firms, warehouses and freight forwarders, will help secure and enhance CTT's long-term planning, cargo-handling capacity, job creation and more integrated logistics services.
德国港口连接良好的铁路网络和支持性业务，如航运服务、物流公司、仓库和货运代理，将有助于确保和加强CTT的长期规划、货物处理能力、创造就业机会和更一体化的物流服务。
The German port's well-connected railroad networks and supporting businesses, such as shipping services, logistics firms, warehouses and freight forwarders, will help secure and enhance CTT long-term planning, cargo-handling capacity, job creation and more integrated logistics services.
德国港口连接良好的铁路网络和支持企业，如航运服务、物流公司、仓库和货运代理，将有助于确保和加强CTT的长期规划、货物处理能力、创造就业机会和更一体化的物流服务。
For the next step, he said the group will work with all partners to build Piraeus Port into a regional logistics hub, and open more shipping routes and railroads to enhance the port's competitiveness.
The State-owned group is confident it can harness new growth opportunities presented by many countries' plans to build new railroads and subways, regional shipping lines and service hubs, upgrade their urbanization and modernize their economies for scale and sustainable growth.
It said the company's big-ticket projects conducted in recent years include the construction of the China-Laos railway, the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railroad in Indonesia, and the Padma Bridge in Bangladesh, which not only played an exemplary role in those markets, but drew attention from other economies keen to stimulate their economies through infrastructure, developmental and utility projects.
Apart from planning to put the Padma Bridge, Bangladesh's largest infrastructure project, into actual service by the end of this year, CREC announced earlier this week the China-Laos railway, a railroad stretching over 1,000 kilometers from Southwest China's Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, to Vientiane in Laos, will launch service in December.
Over the long run, countries in many parts of the world will not only speed up investment in the development of traditional infrastructure categories such as railroads and regional airport construction, but also add capital to public health services, 5G networks and cutting-edge manufacturing technologies amid efforts to place their economic growth on a firmer footing during the post-COVID-19 era, Zhang added.
The railroad can improve traffic conditions in southern Nigeria and provide residents a convenient and comfortable way to travel.
"As the railroad has a station at Apapa Quays, the largest port in the country, it will play a role in boosting development of the port and promote export-oriented economic development in the region," he added.
Over the long run, countries in many parts of the world will not only speed up investment in the development of traditional infrastructure categories such as railroads and regional airport construction, but also add resources to public health services, 5G networks and cutting-edge manufacturing technologies amid efforts to place their economic growth on a firmer footing during the post-pandemic era, Zhang said.
Addressing a news conference in Beijing, he said the group's subsidiaries, including Beijing-based CMST Development Co Ltd, China Logistics Co Ltd and Shanghai-based CTS International Logistics Corp Ltd, have built logistics networks covering China, Europe, North America and Southeast Asia, and operates storage facilities and railroads in many parts of the world.
It is a major supplier of railway oil and provides railroad maintenance and logistics services domestically.
In addition to building railroads, schools and water-conservancy projects, CR20G, a subsidiary of State-owned China Railway Construction Corp Ltd, has helped farmers in its markets in Mozambique and other African nations achieve stable and high yields by introducing China's practical agricultural technologies, conducting related services and applying modern machinery to assist them in ensuring grain security.
"The Mombasa-Nairobi railroad is expected to reduce logistics cost by 40 percent compared to that of road transportation.
The capacity of the train is 35 percent higher than that of a flat-layer train and thus eases capacity strains on busy European railroads, said Sun Yongcai, president and chairman of CRRC.
In Pakistan, his role was to complete basic tasks, such as line measurement, maintenance and training plans, in the shortest time and conduct training for local staff to ensure safe railroad operation.
Feng Hao, a researcher at the Institute of Comprehensive Transportation affiliated with the National Development and Reform Commission, said high-speed freight trains, new special trains for standardized containerized freight, cold chain logistics, and cross-border passenger and freight transportation, will be the next growth point for China's railway transport equipment sector, apart from regular and maglev high-speed trains, high-power locomotives, railroad trucks and urban rail transit vehicles.
It plans to have 200,000 km of track laid by the end of 2035, including about 70,000 km of high-speed track, China State Railway Group, the country's railroad operator, said in its latest national railway development plan released in August.
The planned length for this railroad, with a designated speed of 250 km per hour, is 900 kilometers.
Upon completion, the railroad will be Thailand's first high-speed railway running across the country and connecting with Laos' Vientiane until it reaches China's Kunming, Yunnan province, said Feng Hao, a researcher at the Institute of Comprehensive Transportation of the National Development and Reform Commission.
The railroad is part of the involved countries' plan for a network of links across Southeast Asia, that had its start in a memorandum of understanding on railway cooperation signed by the Chinese and Thai governments in 2014.
At the request of Thailand, China will also use a number of Thai engineers and architects to help transfer expertise in maintenance, operation and management of the high-speed railroad, according to information released by the Chinese embassy in Bangkok.
It plans to have 200,000 km of track laid by the end of 2035, including about 70,000 km of high-speed track, according to the latest national railway plan, issued in August by China State Railway Group, the country's top railroad operator.
In addition to fast growth of big-ticket industrial parks and infrastructure projects such as the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park and the China-Laos Railroad, the two sides should enrich regional industrial chains in key sectors like infrastructure, manufacturing, agriculture and healthcare over the next decade, Xu said.
The railroad is the first with a maximum speed of 350 kilometers per hour in Southeast Asia.
With construction expected to be completed by the end of 2021, the high-speed railroad will be the first of its kind in Indonesia as well as Southeast Asia.
"Building more infrastructure facilities such as bridges and railroads in BRI economies can help narrow the gap between landlocked areas and coastal regions, he said.
Meanwhile, southeastern Finland's Kouvola railroad hub has also been rising in importance as the Finnish end of a rail freight route to and from Xi'an in Northwest China's Shaanxi province.
The number of China-Europe freight trains operated in the first half surged to 5,122, up 36 percent year-on-year, breaking the monthly record several times over, according to China State Railway Group Co Ltd, the nation's railroad operator.
Built by China Harbor Engineering Co, or CHEC－a State-owned enterprise specializing in building ports, marine engineering, dredging, railroads and airport construction projects－the new container terminal at Ghana's port of Tema was completed last month, about 50 days ahead of schedule.
The 143-kilometer-long railroad is being constructed by PT Kereta Cepat Indonesia-China, a consortium involving Indonesia's State-owned companies, and China's centrally-administrated State-owned enterprises including China Railway Signal and Communication Co, China Railway Rolling Stock Corp and Power Construction Corporation of China.
With construction expected to complete by the end of 2021, the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railroad, with a designed speed of up to 350 km/h, is the first such railway in Indonesia, as well as China's first overseas high-speed rail project.
The joint venture will also provide five years of maintenance for its Mexican client after the railroad opens.
The China-Europe railroad is able to transport a large amount of goods and medical supplies within 18 days maximum in both directions, said Feng Hao, a researcher at the National Development and Reform Commission's Institute of Comprehensive Transportation.
At this time, there are 1,600 Chinese workers and 12,763 Nigerian employees who are building railroads, subways, bridges and other infrastructure and service facilities in the country.
At present, there are 1,600 Chinese workers and 12,763 Nigerian employees building railroads, subways, bridges, and other infrastructure and service facilities in the country.
CHEC gains strength with projects worth $30 billionChina Harbor Engineering Co, a State-owned enterprise specializing in building port, marine engineering, dredging, railroad and airport construction projects, will begin building the Bogota Metro Line 1 project in April 2020.
The railroad passes through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania to Kaliningrad Oblast, a part of Russia on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, before entering the EU via the Mamonovo-Braniewo crossing.
The 1,318-kilometer railroad has reported profit growth for five consecutive years since 2014.
The railroad reported a net profit of 10.25 billion yuan in 2018, up 13 percent year-on-year, the filing said.
This planned IPO will send more positive signals to other railroads across China, especially those in the country's coastal regions, to restructure their assets and introduce more shareholders from both the private and State-owned sectors.
Once the railroad officially goes public, it will also help China State Railway Group Co Ltd gain more funds to optimize its giant assets and operational systems through the stock market.
The company has passed quality checks under industrial standards set by North America's Association of American Railroads, the European Union's Technical Specifications for Interoperability, and Germany's Deutsche Bahn.
CRSC Chairman Zhou Zhiliang said the laboratory will not only provide core technical support for the Hungary-Serbia railway, which is built to meet the standards of the European Train Control System level 2, but also share the rich experience of China's high-speed railroad development.
It is now eager to enhance its ability to offer a clutch of railway services as many countries have surging demand to either upgrade or expand their railroad networks.
"The project has so far renovated 550 km of railroads across five provinces," he said.
At least 70 percent of the financing needed to renovate the railroads has come from China, and Argentina is hoping it will "continue to increase" even more, he said.
"As a large number of countries still rely on trucks and coaches to transport goods and people, the demand for modern railroads will remain attractive in many parts of the world," he said.
Rolling stock maker China Railroad Rolling Stock Corp achieved a major milestone in its global efforts after it handed over two locally produced railcars to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) officials in Boston on Tuesday.
"The two Orange Line cars were made at China Railroad Rolling Stock Corp's factory in Springfield, Massachusetts.
It was the home of Wason Manufacturing Co, which was one of the largest makers of railroad cars and locomotives in the US from 1845 until the Great Depression.
Yao said he chose the Louisiana location because the state government offered better incentives and the site has easy access to railroads and waterways.
The group began with mining, mainly copper exploitation, and later expanded into other industries, such as telecommunication, banking, food and beverage, hotels and railroads.
As Chinese rail equipment is targeted for additional tariffs by the US as a result of the US trade representative's Section 301 investigation and determination, China Railroad Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), the world's largest rail car manufacturer, is showing its concern.
According to the plan, a total of 800 billion yuan is expected to be invested in infrastructure, including 67,000 kilometers of highways and 3,400 kilometers of railroads before 2020.
The Metropolitan Transit Authority, which oversees the railroad, approved a contract on Dec 13 with 3rd Track Constructors for the 9.8 miles of new track for the rail system east of New York City.
Affected by lower coal and other commodity prices, the number of cargo trains ordered by China Railway Corp, the State railroad operator, declined from 40,000 units in 2012 to 6,000 units in 2016, according to CRRC data.
Infrastructure, such as the railroads and highways, brings more interaction between cities across the country.
Chinese companies involved included China Railway Group Ltd, China Communications Construction Co and Dalian Huarui Heavy Industry Group Co Ltd. "The integrated iron ore (project), deep water seaport and railroad development will create one of the lowest cost iron ore producers globally," said Sobotka.
The president gave instructions to form technical committees charged with evaluating the maintenance processes and specifying the needed spare parts for the trains and railroad infrastructure.
Shehata said China is preferred over European countries to develop Egypt's railroad infrastructure because China offers both expertise and finance for development projects and the costs are usually lower.
Egypt has spent billions of US dollars to develop its railroad and train systems, but the development projects did not yield good results because "we did invest in an old infrastructure," Shehata pointed out.
A dilapidated railroad network once hindered development of the third-largest economy in Latin America and caused accidents.
"Benefiting from the location, CRRC Zhuzhou can provide timely maintenance services for the new railroad and reach more countries in Southeast Asia," said Zhou, who has worked in the export business for more than two decades.
The group and its subsidiaries have been responsible for various projects in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East, with construction of more than 2,600 kilometers of highways; 180 bridges, with a total length of 105 km; 63 deep-water berths; 10 airports; and 754 container cranes already completed and 1,800 km of railroad under construction.
Infrastructure and business activities fostering synergy in development strategies among partner economiesA railroad between China and Laos, a vehicle plant in South Africa, a container port in Greece and a highway in Jamaica — these represent just a few of the projects constructed and managed as part of the Belt and Road Initiative over the past decade.
"The BRI has also deepened cooperation between China and Indonesia, involving multiple areas of collaboration, such as high-speed railroad and manufacturing," he added.
Thanks to the Belt and Road Initiative, numerous Chinese investors, particularly State-owned enterprises, have solidified their presence in the UAE, participating in key infrastructural projects encompassing ports, railroads, and highways.
Going forward, the two countries can strengthen cooperation in the fields of highways, railroads, border infrastructure and trade exchanges.
In terms of traditional infrastructure investment, priority can be given to key regions to carry out new and repair work of transportation infrastructure such as railroads, highways, airports and ports, and to explore the creation of a new land-sea corridor in Central America that spans two oceans.
Apart from developing game-changing infrastructure projects such as railroads, hospitals, power plants, as well as bulk and container ports in countries in need, the BRI has created growth in areas such as trade in services, new foreign trade formats and digital and green development internationally, said Gao Lingyun, director of the international investment division at the Institute of World Economics and Politics, which is part of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
"In addition to building traditional infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges and railroads, we plan to seize new business opportunities emerging in the transformation of the global industrial chain and market revitalization in Africa, as part of building 'new infrastructure' like 5G towers, big data centers, the internet of things facilities and digital hubs in the next few years," said Jiang Yigao, vice-president of CCECC.
Yue Chen, general manager of the Jiangxi branch of Ningbo Port Railway Co Ltd — the service's operator for railroad operations — said his company will intensify efforts to boost cargo volumes for the intermodal express service.
China's inland cities will increase their use of the country's railroad links to seaports in order to boost exports to other signatory economies of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, which will help sustain the country's foreign trade growth this year, said government officials and market observers.
They have relied on existing railroad networks to transship their products to other RCEP markets.
"They will be operated on the Vitoria-Minas Railroad and Carajas Railroad operated by Vale.
Data released by the Israeli Ministry of Transport and Road Safety showed the country is now investing $4-5 billion each year to upgrade its transport infrastructure and is building airports, seaports, railroad tracks, roads and tunnels, which reflects the huge complementarity of the respective economic advantages between the two countries.
The Asia-Pacific is home to an extending infrastructure network which was further energized over the past year by new bridges, dams, highways, power lines and railroads, among other BRI projects.
Many businesses and governments in Africa long relied on aging railroads and port facilities to ship valuable cargo such as coal and precious metals for export.
They seek to build modern railroads to meet African economies' soaring demand for foreign trade, regional connectivity, investment opportunities and a more functional service sector.
Railroad, metro lines and highways will be extended or built to facilitate travel and the delta's integration.
The Port of Hamburg's well-connected railroad networks and more than 7,000 supporting businesses like shipping services, logistics firms, warehouses and freight forwarders will help secure and enhance CTT long-term planning, cargo-handling capacity, job creation and more integrated logistics services.
This should support the upgrade of the railroad services' domestic and foreign assembly centers from points to hubs, in order to move more goods and create new jobs, Li said.
Hungary's Minister for Innovation and Technology Laszlo Palkovics said further steps for railroad infrastructure were taken by the Hungarian government to emphasize the country's role as a central European logistics hub.
"We are proud to say that today, all major Chinese and European trains are concentrated in Hungary with dozens of European inland railroads crisscrossing the country, allowing goods to be delivered to all major European cities within a short period of time via a well-developed and continuously improving rail network," Palkovics said.
"In 2019, Hungary invested in the development of the Ukrainian-Hungarian railroad corridor at Zahony as part of the Belt and Road Initiative－a route providing a solid guarantee for the future passage of China-Hungary freight trains.
"Hopefully, with those projects, Serbia will join the European highway and railroad network, and become more competitive in the international market. "
Chen Yun, CREC's chairman, said the group will deploy more resources and manpower to make breakthroughs in cutting-edge technologies, including the development of smart high-speed railroads, smart highways and smart cities, as well as equipment manufacturing in the coming years.
Operated by more than 100 employees and with 1.79 million square meters of land, the facility owns six 1,050-meter-long loading and unloading railroads, and 240,000-square-meter warehouse.
"It will increase the capacity of the modern railroad in Central Europe, and it is part of the Silk Road," Patai said.
Park, the associate director of the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, said their recent research examined Chinese investments in manufacturing, agro-processing, telecommunication and infrastructure projects in seven African countries, and found clear evidence of job creation, linkages to local suppliers and buyers, local subcontracting and even local copycat activities across sectors ranging from cotton and leather processing to railroad construction and operations and plastic waste recycling.
Over the next decade, China's investment will be redirected from roads and railroads, which are already excellent, to 5G, big data, the internet of things, and new energy.
Apart from building both regular and maglev high-speed trains, high-power locomotives, railroad trucks and urban rail transit vehicles, Du said high-speed freight trains and 30,000-metric-ton heavy-duty trains, as well as new special trains for standardized containerized freight, cold chain logistics and cross-border freight transportation, will be the next growth point for China's railway transport equipment sector.