‘Container madness reaches ultimate heights’. ‘The war on international containers breaks through the walls’ and ‘Shipping container shortage is causing shipping costs to rise’. These are some of the headlines which you have probably seen...Read more
Digitilisation is what will bring the New Silk Road further, and 2022 could be the year of change. “Together with our partners and EAEU neighbours, we are on the brink of introducing a unified waybill....Read more
Several terminals in the ports of Shanghai and Ningbo have been shut down since Sunday as a precaution to Typhoon Chanthu, which arrived in China on Sunday evening. Ships and airplanes are diverted and train...Read more
By the end of this year, a new terminal will be opened in Mostyska, the hub in the making on the Polish-Ukrainian border. “The opportunities are many. So many, that we may not be able...Read more
Kazakhstan is building a new railway line to increase its transit potential on the Middle Corridor. It runs from Dostyk near the Chinese border to Moiynty near the Caspian Sea. Construction has officially started, backed...Read more
“The Belt and Road Initiative is about politics. If Poland wants to further consolidate its position on the New Silk Road, it needs government intervention and coordination.” This was said by Bartosz Baca, the managing...Read more
To a certain extent, the high sea freight rates and shortage of capacity have attracted more customers to the rails of the New Silk Road. When everything returns to normal, will the glory of the...Read more
If there is one thing we learnt during the pandemic, it is that the success of the New Silk Road does not rely on the Chinese subsidies, or any other subsidies for that matter. The...Read more
Russia is developing its Far Eastern ports as transhipments hubs on the New Silk Road. This is in response to declining volumes on the land route via Russia, caused by additional prevention and control measures...Read more
The second quarter of 2021 has been quite productive for DB Cargo Eurasia. The operator has launched five new connections between China-Europe, linking eight different destinations. Houma-Hamburg, Hefei-Wilhelmshaven, Xi’an-Paris, Nanjing-Tilburg and Xi’an-Tilburg are now part...Read more
China has fully reopened a major container terminal in Ningbo, one of the world’s busiest ports, after it was closed two weeks ago due to an employee’s corona infection. However, the impact is still felt...Read more
ANALYSIS – China could use the China-Europe train as a political pressure tool against Lithuania by suspending rail freight between the two countries. This was recently claimed by industry experts. How could the China-EU train...Read more
US sanctions have impacted international rail freight activity in Iran for many years. Important connections are not realised, or not consumed as they should be. At the same time, the importance of Iran in connecting...Read more
It is now more than two months since a new terminal at Dostyk was opened on the Chinese-Kazakh border. According to the operator, it is already handling three trains per day on average, and this...Read more
Whether China-Lithuania trains will suspend their operations remains a mystery. China Railways have denied any plans to stop traffic to and from Lithuania, claiming that such reports are false.Read more
While economic recession hits most sectors hard, cross-border e-commerce is experiencing drastic growth. Due to travel restrictions in various countries during the pandemic, the ‘home economy’ has emerged, and online shopping has become the first...Read more
Also this year, traffic on the New Silk Road rises despite all the challenges facing the global supply chain. In the first half of this year, 7,323 trains moved between China and Europe, according to...Read more
The port authorities of Ningbo (China) shut down the Meishan container terminal on Wednesday and blocked all shipping traffic to and from the terminal until further notice. The Ningbo city government said that the terminal...Read more
