{"id":2684,"date":"2013-09-23T10:46:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T09:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:47:24","slug":"china-produce-worlds-heaviest-freight-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/china-produce-worlds-heaviest-freight-train","title":{"rendered":"China produce world&#8217;s heaviest freight train."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNR Qigiahr Railway Rolling Stock Co,. Ltd, a prominent Chinese rolling stock Manufacturer produced the gargantuan vehicle just last month.<\/p>\n<p>The train is said to have a maximum loading capacity of nearly 155 tonnes per wagon. This translates to a total carrying capacity of somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 tonnes, with the maximum axle load on each wagon being 44 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>The production of the train reconfirms China&#8217;s position as a market leader in the global industry of freight train research, development, and manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>The train has been sold to leading global mining and metals company, Rio Tinto.<\/p>\n<p>Freight train shipping is still a popular method of transporting large quantities of goods, mainly being used for coal, chemicals, farm products, and non-metallic minerals.<\/p>\n<p>Innovations like this help to keep the industry going. Add to this the fuel efficient nature of freight trains (According to the Association of American Railroads, a freight train uses only 1 gallon of diesel to move a tonne of freight goods 436 miles) and freight trains still have a bright future in an ever-evolving shipping environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNR Qigiahr Railway Rolling Stock Co,. Ltd, a prominent Chinese rolling stock Manufacturer produced the gargantuan vehicle just last month. The train is said to have a maximum loading capacity of nearly 155 tonnes per wagon. This translates to a total carrying capacity of somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 tonnes, with the maximum axle load [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6296,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}