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China-Laos train transports first lot of 20 containers of Thai longans through Mohan railway checkpoint
China-Laos train transports first batch of 20 containers of Thai longans through Mohan railway checkpoint after plant disease inspection point at Mohan railway checkpoint opens for service
Mohan Railway Station Opens
On December 2, 2022, Mr. Alongkorn Polbut, Advisor to the Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives as a member of the Fruit Development and Management Committee (Fruit Board), disclosed information on the progress of the opening of the Mohan Railway Checkpoint.
To transport Thai fruits via the China-Laos railway, it was revealed that the China-Laos railway has successfully transported the first batch of 20 containers of Thai longans through the Mohan checkpoint, marking the maiden voyage after the inspection and quarantine point for imported fruits at the Mohan checkpoint was completed and passed the inspection by Kunming Customs.
On November 22, 2022, a China-Laos train carrying 20 containers of longans from Chanthaburi in the eastern region departed from Vientiane South Station and arrived at the Boten railway checkpoint on the Laos-China border.
It took about 5 hours and stopped to do the export customs formalities into China at Mohan Pass. Then the train crossed the China-Laos border to Mohan Pass and continued on to its destination, Chongqing.
This is the first lot of Thai fruit and the first time that Thai fruit has been successfully transported across the border from Thailand through Laos to China via the rail system under the protocol for importing and exporting fruit between Thailand and China, in which Dr. Chalermchai Sri-on, Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, worked in advance to open the Mohan checkpoint and Nong Khai checkpoint by negotiating with the Chinese authorities in Beijing at the end of 2019 until the objectives were achieved.
The import and export of fruits under the Thai-Chinese Fruit Protocol requires plant disease inspection (SPS measures) at the import and export ports. Therefore, although other Thai agricultural products have been exported via the China-Laos Railway over the past year, Thai fruits have not been transported to China via this railway from Vientiane to Kunming directly. Therefore, it takes a lot of time to transport fruits from Vientiane onto the train to Boten and onto trucks waiting in line to enter China at the Mohan Checkpoint (truck checkpoint) because the plant disease inspection point at the Mohan Railway Checkpoint is not yet open for service.
The signing of the said protocol opens another route for transporting Thai fruits to the Chinese market and has created an opportunity for Thai fruits from all regions of the country to be transported by rail to China, reducing the time and increasing the competitiveness of Thai fruits. This is good news for Thai fruit growers.
Source of information: Royal Thai Government
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