{"id":764565,"date":"2026-07-15T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/764565\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:24:28","slug":"amid-soaring-china-exports-europes-ports-are-feeling-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/764565\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid soaring China exports, Europe\u2019s ports are feeling the heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

With summer temperatures topping 40 degrees Celsius across several European countries, westbound trade from China is heating up just as fast \u2013 despite growing concerns among EU politicians over widening trade imbalances<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prompted by soaring shipments, congestion along the China-Europe Railway Express has worsened during the past few months, according to industry insiders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe congestion used to be at China\u2019s departure ports. Now it has shifted to Europe\u2019s ports of entry,\u201d said Andrew Jiang, general manager of freight forwarder Air Sea Transport, which specialises in shipping goods via rail.<\/p>\n

While Jiang said the Europe-bound export orders his company handled in June dropped a bit from May\u2019s peak, the latest Chinese customs data showed that the country\u2019s exports to the European Union rose 18.5 per cent year on year in June<\/a>, more than double the previous month\u2019s growth rate.Air conditioners<\/a> embodied the boom, with exports to the EU rising 43.2 per cent year on year to a record US$3.76 billion in the first half, according to a People\u2019s Daily report, citing Chinese customs data.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmid frequent extreme heat around the world, exports of \u2018cooling\u2019 appliances \u2013 including air conditioners, fans and refrigerators \u2013 totalled 107.91 billion yuan (US$15.94 billion),\u201d Wang Jun, vice-minister of the General Administration of Customs, said at a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With summer temperatures topping 40 degrees Celsius across several European countries, westbound trade from China is heating up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[326989,326988,140675,28,144,326990,101,18758,1076,66761,6797,326986,120757,326987,136791,71788,110851],"class_list":["post-764565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-air-sea-transport","tag-andrew-jiang","tag-antwerp","tag-business","tag-china","tag-china-europe-railway-express","tag-economy","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-general-administration-of-customs","tag-germany","tag-horgos","tag-maersk","tag-malaszewicze","tag-midea","tag-north-sea","tag-rotterdam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}