Can the Nordic countries connect via the Silk Road with China with Greece as a transit point? This is possible, says Nordicon, a consolidation company that runs a new multimodal service between Yantian, China and...Read more
Turkey has come one step closer to having a high-speed railway link from Istanbul to the border with Bulgaria. The Halkalı – Kapikule project, which is scheduled to be completed this year, saw the first...Read more
Maersk has also joined the Middle Corridor game with a new, improved rail freight service. The global logistics company implements a rail solution that bundles cargo from multiple Chinese locations and dispatches them to Europe...Read more
Finnish state-controlled rail company VR Group is racing to terminate transport agreements with customers on the Russian route. The company sped up the gradual phase-out of traffic to and from Russia and started concluding agreements...Read more
CEVA Logistics is the latest addition to a series of companies entering the MIddle Corridor to transit between China-Europe. WIth a new service connecting Xi’an to Duisburg, the logistics specialist company will offer weekly departures...Read more
Large car manufacturers that were once solid customers of rail freight between China and Europe are withdrawing from the New Silk Road. Apart from BMW and Audi, Porsche has stopped shipping its finished products via...Read more
Rail freight traffic between China and Russia will soon have another border crossing to choose from. The railway bridge connecting Chinese Tongjiang with Nizhneleninskoye in Russia is to become operational in the coming months, with...Read more
Rail freight traffic between Finland and Russia will gradually cease after the existing transport contracts of state-controlled company VR Group end. For now, traffic is still possible. However, in the following months, this will not...Read more
Russian and Chinese railways have agreed to increase the number of rail freight trains passing through their shared border crossings. Traffic has already increased in April, and the two parties aim to boost both westbound...Read more
The RailFreight Summit Special Edition hosted in Brussels last Wednesday, 6 April, provided much room for fruitful discussions and insights on the disrupted New Silk Road. The one-day event included some important news that we...Read more
The establishment of a Middle Corridor joint venture has been confirmed by Gaidar Abdikerimov, secretary-general of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route association (TITR). A Joint Venture between Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Kazakhstan is in the...Read more
EVENTIn a little more than 24 hours the special edition of the RailFreight Summit kicks off. This event, hosted in Brussels on Wednesday 6 April, is organised to discuss the current challenges on the New...Read more
A new electronic queue system will be applied at Kazakhstan’s Nur-Zholy border point to ensure transparency in cross-border transport and curb customs corruption. “In this way, the cost of cargo transportation services at the China-Kazakhstan...Read more
LOCKDOWNSFrom the early hours of 28 March, a lockdown is in place to control the Covid-19 epidemic in Shanghai. Shanghai’s Pudong and Paxi districts entered the lockdown with some time difference, while restrictions will be...Read more
Gebrüder Weiss, the oldest logistics company in the world, established in 1823, will expand its presence in Turkey with a new location at Mersin while laying its eyes on the Middle Corridor. Turkey, says the...Read more
The greek port of Piraeus recorded the highest revenues in its history and increased volumes turnover in 2021. At the same time, it faces court decisions ruling that expansion projects of previous years were illegal...Read more
The Middle Corridor cannot meet all the volume and capacity demands resulting from the disruption of New Silk Road routes passing through Russia. “The corridor accounts for about 3-5 per cent of the total capacity...Read more
Finnish logistics company Nurminen Logistics and Kazakhstan Railways signed an agreement on commercialising the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route, also known as the Middle Corridor. The two parties plan to launch test trains through this route...Read more
