The Xi'an Guojigang Station (literally "Xi'an International Port Station") is a first class railway freight station located on the North Ring Line of the Xi'an Railway Hub, serving the Xi'an International Port Service Area. It is an important part of the Xi'an Inland Port. It is composed of the Xi'an Railway Container Center Station, the Xinzhu Railway Comprehensive Logistics Center, the Kazakhstan Xi'an Terminal, and other facilities. It mainly handles cargo loading and unloading of loaded trucks, direct packages, and containers. The station (then named Xinzhu station) was built in 2006 and soon became the terminal of the Trans-Eurasian Logistics international freight trains between Xi'an and European destinations since 2013.
The Container Center (西å®ÂéÂÂè·¯éÂÂ裠箱ä¸Âå¿Âç«Â) is one of the 18 railway container central stations planned by the former Ministry of Railways of the PRC, built with a total investment of about RMB 636 million. It is located in the South Yard of the station, covering an area of 2,058 mu, , operated by the China United International Rail Containers Co., Ltd.It consists of four parts: container operation area, express operation area, special cargo loading operation area, and truckload shipping operation area.
The Xinzhu Railway Comprehensive Logistics Center (æ°çÂÂéÂÂ路综åÂÂç©æµÂä¸Âå¿Â) is located in the North Yard of the station, and it is one of the 35 first-class railway logistics bases (éÂÂè·¯ä¸Â级ç©æµÂåºå°) in the country, covering an area of 2,441 mu (). It consists of eight functional areas:
Construction started in 2014 and it was put into service in 2018 The new site was fully opened in September 2018.
The KXT (Ã¥ÂÂè¨å Âæ¯å¦西å®Âç Â头) was built jointly by China and the government of Kazakhstan to expedite the distribution of goods imported and exported between the two countries. The terminal has cargo warehouses, container stacking areas, and other operating areas. It is connected to the container loading and unloading area of Xi'an Guojigang station for fast transfer. China Railway Xi'an Group
The status of port of entry, allowing direct international trade, was established temporarily in 2014 and permanently in 2018. It is under the jurisdiction of the Xi'an Railway Station Customs Office, subordinate to the Xi'an Customs Administration. It manages the China United International Rail Container's Xi'an Custom Supervision Area, and the Xi'an Railway Port's Vehicles and Truckloads Supervision Operations Area.
In order to further improve the station's cargo handling capacity, China Railway Xi'an Group has expanded the station three times, increasing the number of cargo tracks to 29, of which 12 tracks have both arrival and departure functions. After the renovation, the rail lines in the station are arranged in a through-and-around manner, and trains can be loaded and unloaded straight in-straight out.
In October 2013, the first Trans-Eurasian train from Xi'an departed from this station. Subsequently, the number and destinations of the Trans-Eurasian trains from Xi'an (informally called the "Chang'an Express") increased year by year. In October 2022, the station launched the first fully scheduled Trans-Eurasian Logistics' train. The train has strictly fixed arrival and departure times in countries along the route, shortening the freight transportation time and simplifying the logistics calculations. From 2024, regular intermodal transport operations started. As of October 2023, Xi'an Guojigang Station has operated more than 20,000 trains, accounting for about a quarter of the total number of Sino-European through-trains in China, becoming the station with the largest number of trans-continental trains in China.