On September 24, the Ministry of Transport, National Railway Administration, and China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. jointly issued the "One Port, One Policy" Action Plan for Promoting Deep Integration and Development of Container Rail-Water Intermodal Transport (2025-2027).

The plan emphasizes five key areas: integrated infrastructure connectivity, unified intermodal organization and coordination, standardized rules and regulations alignment, integrated intermodal data sharing, and coordinated market development. Through the "one port, one policy" approach, the initiative aims to promote deep integration and development of container rail-water intermodal transport, targeting an annual growth rate of approximately 15% in container rail-water intermodal volume by 2027.

The plan calls for accelerating rail-water intermodal information interconnection. It promotes the establishment of stable and reliable information system interactions and data sharing mechanisms among railway, port, shipping, and freight forwarding enterprises under market-oriented principles and legal compliance. This includes opening up information on train and vessel bookings, train schedules and shipping timetables, departure and arrival stations/ports, terminal operations, and positioning tracking to enable comprehensive cargo traceability throughout the entire journey and enhance port-rail coordination and intermodal service efficiency. By 2027, the goal is to achieve information system connectivity between major rail-water intermodal port enterprises and railway information systems.

The comprehensive document outlines detailed implementation strategies across five major areas:

**Infrastructure Integration**: The plan accelerates construction of port-connecting railways, promotes shared railway and port yard facilities, ensures smooth railway corridors behind ports, and advances inland terminal system construction. Key projects include railway extensions to various major ports including Tianjin Nangang, Hebei Huanghua Port, Tangshan Caofeidian, Jiangsu Taizhou Port, Zhejiang Ningbo Meishan, and multiple other strategic locations.

**Coordinated Intermodal Operations**: The initiative promotes intensive intermodal operations, enhances intermodal product quality and efficiency, supports "road-to-rail" and "bulk-to-container" transportation modes, and optimizes international container rail-water intermodal connections. This includes developing rail-water express networks covering major intermodal ports nationwide by 2027.

**Standardized Rules Integration**: The plan advances completion of the rail-water intermodal standards system and promotes coordinated development between ports and railways, particularly supporting Yangtze River Economic Belt multimodal transport development and Western Land-Sea New Corridor cooperation.

**Integrated Data Sharing**: Beyond information interconnection, the plan vigorously develops "one bill" systems for rail-water intermodal transport and promotes "one container" rail-water intermodal solutions, encouraging shipping companies to establish container pickup and return points at riverside, coastal, and inland terminals.

**Coordinated Market Development**: The initiative aims to improve rail-water intermodal market pricing mechanisms, enhance port customs clearance convenience, and create premium rail-water intermodal routes through annual selection and promotion of branded intermodal routes nationwide.

The action plan requires relevant transportation authorities, railway regulatory bureaus, and railway bureau groups to prioritize implementation, with each container rail-water intermodal port enterprise taking the lead in developing detailed "one port, one policy" implementation plans. The initiative establishes dynamic coordination and supervision mechanisms while maintaining the effectiveness of the ministerial-provincial collaborative working group mechanism for promoting rail-water intermodal development.

Provincial transportation authorities are tasked with accelerating preliminary work and construction implementation of port-connecting railway projects, actively securing national comprehensive freight hub strengthening policies, and ensuring land and sea resource guarantees to support high-quality development of container rail-water intermodal transport.