Why is 'LOAD DATA INFILE' faster than normal INSERT statements?

I've read an article that mentioned we can achieve **60,000 inserts per second** by using the LOAD DATA IN FILE statement, that reads from csv files and inserts the data into a database. Why should it differ from normal inserts? **EDIT:** I reduced the round-trip by calling just one INSERT statement: INSERT INTO tblname VALUES (NULL,2,'some text here0'),(NULL,2,'some text here1') ,(NULL,2,'some text here2'),(NULL,2,'some text here3') .....,(NULL,2,'some text here3000'); What about this?