Wuhan has re-started its container express service to Shanghai. The loaded 245-teu barge named Changhai Donghu set off from Wuhan’s Yangluo International Container Terminal on 3 March and reached Yangshan terminal in Shanghai within 48 hours. The containers were then re-loaded onto ocean-going vessels for the USA and Netherlands.

Initially started in May 2006, the service didn’t attract enough shippers within the first year or so and became commercially unviable.