Coronavirus Has Been a Boon for China’s Railways

SHANGHAI—The coronavirus pandemic is boosting a main factor of China’s Belt and Highway Initiative, as rising rates and disruptions in sea and air shipping power businesses to change to trains.

Railways that China has revived in recent many years, connecting the country to Europe by means of Central Asia, just notched their busiest month however. China Railway Corp., which operates the trains in China, said it recorded 976 excursions in April, a 47% raise calendar year-over calendar year. The trains have been carrying cargo equivalent to the ability of four of the…