CEVA Logistics has inaugurated its first International Road Transport (TIR) hub in Alashankou, China—a 4,300-square-metre automated distribution center in Northwest China’s Alashankou Free Trade Zone near the Kazakhstan border.
Facility Features
The bonded zone facility serves as a high-tech consolidation point for Less-than-Truckload (LTL) shipments, enabling multiple shippers to share vehicle capacity and reduce costs. An additional 1,000 square metres is dedicated to handling dangerous goods.
The center, located within the Cross-Border eCommerce Industrial Park of Alashankou’s Comprehensive Bonded Zone, offers preferential customs clearance, fast-clearance policies, and duty-free storage designed to accelerate e-commerce fulfillment and manufacturing supply chains.
Performance Benefits
CEVA estimates the TIR model at Alashankou will reduce transit times by approximately 30 per cent and cut costs by about 15 per cent compared to conventional road transport. The facility is the company’s first TIR hub designed to consolidate both inbound and outbound TIR road freight operations.
Kelvin Tang, Vice President of Ground & Rail for Greater China and Global Cross-Border & Multimodal Leader at CEVA Logistics, stated: “Alashankou is no longer a checkpoint; it is a launchpad for Eurasian supply chains. By blending the simplicity of TIR with the city’s forward-looking policies, we give customers a faster and fully visible path end-to-end”.
Strategic Network
The hub will anchor a TIR network linking approximately 30 cities across 15 countries in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Europe. Alashankou’s strategic location borders Kazakhstan and provides direct highway connections into Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Europe.
