EVENTHave you always wanted to visit an intermodal terminal in the fast-growing rail freight hub of Budapest? On 1 December 2023, a site visit to METRANS Budapest-Csepel Terminal (BUCS) is scheduled. This is part of...Read more
China is increasing its digitalisation pace. Using the blockchain technology provided by the Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), the Chinese New Land-Sea Corridor (NLSC), could stimulate paperless trade and faster information exchange from Asia to...Read more
INTERVIEWTwo companies have launched new services from Lodz in Poland to Chengdu in China, with a twelve-day transit time. For trains transiting between Europe and China, such a delivery time used to be luxurious, but...Read more
With eighty per cent of international freight trains leaving China ending up in Russia, as several Chinese rail platform companies confirm, China-Russia volumes have sort of monopolised the Silk Road lately. 2023 has undoubtedly been...Read more
The narrative surrounding Italy’s adhesion to the Belt and Road Initiative insists that it did not bring significant advantages for the country, since China did not significantly increase its investments there. However, the initiative did...Read more
The biblical disaster unfolding in China, with several people dead and massive destruction of infrastructure because of roaming typhoons, has somehow not disrupted Eurasian rail transport. According to reports from platform companies in China and...Read more
For some European importers, Christmas goods must be ordered before September if they are to be shipped via rail. Time is ticking, says Michaela Kralovicova, CEO of Infinity Forwarding in Slovakia, who believes that small-scale...Read more
INTERVIEWThe Eurasian transport market is changing; that is a fact. Supply chain disruptions can be inevitable, and the market needs to adjust to them and find new pathways towards development. As the New Silk Road...Read more
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will meet US President Joe Biden in the White House on Thursday 27 July. One of the topics that will be discussed will be “closer transatlantic coordination regarding the People’s...Read more
ANALYSISThe race to acquire a place in global supply chains is intensifying, and Pakistan seems committed to getting a good position. The South Asian country is on track to launch two railway projects, which are...Read more
The situation concerning Italy and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) launched by China seems to interest more than just the two countries involved. The French government recently shared its views on the issue, claiming...Read more
Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) is currently carrying out its most extensive railway repair plan in recent years. The railway repair work includes locations across the country; it started in March and is expected to last until...Read more
Russia Railways launched a new service dedicated to transporting e-commerce and postal products from China to Russia. The service will connect the Chinese border city Hunchun and Vladivostok in Russia, the first train was sent...Read more
China-Europe rail freight volumes seem to have increased by 30 per cent for the first half of the year, reaching 936,000 TEU. In terms of operated trains, the number has increased by 16 per cent...Read more
China has launched a new service to link Southeast Asia and Europe in 15 days. The new service will connect the capital of Laos, Vientiane, with Budapest in Hungary via the Chinese southwestern city of...Read more
Network Rail is proposing to adapt the line from Folkestone to Wembley in north London, via Ashford and Maidstone in Kent, at a surprisingly low cost of ten million pounds. The goal is to enable...Read more
For the first two quarters of 2023, the transit volumes of Azerbaijan Railways amounted to 3,527,698 tons, roughly 150.000 tons less than the same period last year. Transit traffic via Azerbaijan is relatively stagnant, with...Read more
Kaliningrad Railway (KZD), an RZD subsidiary, experienced a 37.2 per cent drop in freight volumes loading for the first half of 2023. Between January-June, the company loaded 955.700 tonnes of cargo on its trains. The...Read more
Two new intermodal China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) services were launched on 4th July. One originates from Langfang city, near Beijing, while the other is from Guangzhou city. These two services have the potential to connect Central Asia...Read more
Iran officially joined the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on 4 July, increasing the current SCO membership to nine. Alongside member states Russia and India, this new membership brings greater potential to the port of Chabahar,...Read more
The Middle Corridor remains a promising Eurasian transit route that keeps growing. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) says that given targeted investments amounting to 18.5 billion euros, the route could reach a...Read more