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When It's D-Day....Military Railroading Joins the Navy

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When It's D-Day....Military Railroading Joins the Navy
Posted by Victrola1 on Thursday, October 11, 2012 9:52 AM

The "Bohai No.1" roll-on-roll-off ferry carrying dozens of carriages of military train loaded with artillery, transport vehicles and combat personnel from the Jinan Military Area Command (MAC) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) slowly sailed off the Yantai Port at 11:00 on September 26, 2012, marking this cross-sea railway channel with the longest haul distance and the best ferrying performance in China is ready for military transportation hereafter....

"To transport the organic troop units by the cross-sea railway ferry opens up a new strategic transportation channel, and improves the effectiveness of projection support," said Sun Fengle, deputy director of the Military Transportation Department under the PLA General Logistics Department (GLD), on the site."

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90786/7972819.html

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