Belt and Road
News about rail between Europe and Asia
New Silk Road succeeds in cost reduction, less volatile than ocean freight
Eurasian rail freight has become more competitive due to significant cost reduction. Moreover, the cost of rail transportation is less volatile than the price of sea delivery, research firm Drewry concludes. Drewry is a leading independent...Read more
First Xi’an – Prague container train arrives
The first container train from Xi’an in China to Prague in Czechia arrived in the European city on 10 March. The journey took 11 days and terminated at the Ceska Trebov Terminal. The new train service...Read more
Weekly service for Geely automotive parts China-Belarus
JSC RZD Logistics launched a weekly rail freight service transporting knock-down kits of automotive manufacturer Geely. The goods are delivered from Chengdu in China to the BelGee assembly factory in Belarus. The first train is...Read more200 more railcars for UTLC on New Silk Road
United Transport and Logistics Company – Eurasian Railway Alliance (UTLC ERA) has purchased 200 railcars fitting 80-foot containers from Osipovichsky Plant of Mechanical Engineering (OPME). All units will be delivered by the end of April,...Read more
Kazakhstan moves more cargo by rail to China in 2018
Railway traffic between Kazakhstan and China saw a major rise in 2018. Especially eastbound traffic increased significantly, with more than 50 per cent. This is a positive milestone for Eurasian railway traffic, which has seen...Read more
UNICON 1520 to ship sodium hydroxide for RusVinyl
Railway operator UNICON 1520, part of United Wagon Company, has won a tender to transport sodium hydroxide for producer RusVinyl over a period of two years. UNICON 1520 will provide RusVinyl with a fleet of...Read more
Belarus to open new railway border crossing with Poland
Belarusian Railway is to revive the Visoko-Litovsk/Czeremcha railway crossing on the Polish border. The abandoned facility is scheduled to open in the fourth quarter of this year. The measure is in response to the increased...Read more
Poland to add new tracks near Małaszewicze terminal
Polish railway infrastructure manager PKP PLK plans to install additional broad gauge tracks at the Terespol border station in Poland. This will increase the capacity of the Terespol-Brest crossing to Belarus. Moreover, it alleviates pressure...Read more
Volumes on Middle Corridor to increase fourfold in 2019
A targeted volume of 60 thousand TEU’s should be shipped along the Middle Corridor this year, four times more than last year. Interest in the multimodal connection between Europe and China via the Caspian Sea...Read more
Rail freight between China and Russia to be inspected without train stop
Russian state corporation Ruselectronics has installed the country’s first stationary custom inspection complex for freight railcars. The new complex inspects the trains and containers on the Russian-Chinese border without stop, even when a train runs...Read more
Chengdu to have first fully automated rail terminal China
Chengdu plans to build the first fully automated international rail port of China. The new terminal will be able to handle 1.5 million containers per year, increasing its efficiency by thirty per cent. This was reported...Read more
New Silk Road milestone: more traffic eastbound to Chongqing in 2018
Rail freight traffic from Europe to Chongqing in China exceeded traffic in westbound direction in 2018. The number of trains travelling from Europe to the southwestern Chinese city reached 728, out of a total of...Read more
Price of railway on New Silk Road closer to ‘sea level’
Tariff rates for railway transportation on the New Silk Road are now highly competitive in relation to sea transportation. The difference in tariffs between container transportation by rail and transportation by sea is less than...Read more