China's First Cross-strait Train Ferry put to Test

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China's First Cross-strait Train Ferry put to Test

China's first cross-strait traintransport ferry, the "Guangdong-Hainan-Railway I", set sail Thursday morning for the Qiongzhou Straits for a comprehensive test on its performance.

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China's first cross-strait traintransport ferry, the "Guangdong-Hainan-Railway I", set sail Thursday morning for the Qiongzhou Straits for a comprehensive test on its performance.

Designed by the No. 708 Institute of the China Shipbuilding andTrading Company and built in the Shanghai Shipyard, the ferry has a tonnage of 12,400 and costs 210 million yuan (25 million US dollars).

With a designed minimum speed of 15 nautical miles per hour, the ferry is 165.4 meters long and 22.6 meters wide.

Its main deck, with a standard load of 4,200 tons, can hold a 40-car freight train or a 18-car passenger train.

Its cabin is equipped up to the standards of three-star hotels so as to provide comfortable service for passengers.

It is also equipped with a black box, radar, a flameproof illumination system, lifesaving gears and safe exits which, together, ensure evacuation in 30 minutes or less.

Chief Designer Yu Baojun said the rail-ferry link is an important component of the Guangdong-Hainan Railway, the first cross-strait railroad in China.

With a total length of 568.3 kilometers, the railway starts from Zhanjiang of Guangdong Province, runs through Leizhou Peninsula and terminates at Hai'an Harbor. At Chahe Harbor on the other side of the Qiongzhou Straits, a connecting railway line runs directly to Sanya City in Hainan Province.

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