COSCO has launched a new China-Europe train, connecting Qingdao on the east coast of China with
Mannheim, a German logistics hotspot in the west of the country. The first train departed from Qingdao last Friday, 18...Read more
If you asked industry experts to define the New Silk Road in 2021, the key word was congestion. Two months into the new year, congestion seems to have decreased, and trains are able to make...Read more
China’s president Xi Jinping is willing to work closely with the EU and embrace their agreements. In a communication with France’s president Emmanuel Macron last week, he stressed that France’s EU presidency could leverage the...Read more
CEVA Logistics started 2022 by expanding its products between Asia and Europe. It launched some new services and updated existing ones. Turkey is now in the company’s network as it offers daily connections between the...Read more
While China is still celebrating the New Year peacefully, there is not much peace along the New Silk Road. Disputes and unrest are spreading along the Eurasian corridor, and they could possibly have a heavy...Read more
The Russian intermodal operator TransContainer launched its first multimodal rail freight service under a unified CIM/SMGS consignment note. The service that connected Wuhan in China with Mukran Port in Germany is the first of many...Read more
UPDATERail freight traffic between Ukraine and Poland will resume on Thursday 10 February 2021. This was negotiated today by the respective ministries of the countries. Freight trains to and from Poland have been banned from...Read more
Transit traffic through Ukraine to and from the Polish border will be resumed. That was the biggest news of this week, although an official date for the reopening of this route is yet to be...Read more
Right before China transitioned into the New Year according to its calendar, it saw another reason to celebrate. On 29 January the 50,000th China-Europe train embarked on its journey towards the west.Read more
Russia is considering to help finance the construction of railway line V0, the Hungarian bypass to Budapest that will connect the border with Ukraine to the border with Austria. It is one of the first...Read more
VIDEOThe New Silk Road has connected Europe and Asia, but many companies are still finding it difficult to find reliable partners on the other side of the supply chain. From time to time, we use...Read more
As soon as the Chinese New Year is over, a regular chemical train may be running on the New Silk Road. That is the plan of COSCO and VTG, which saw the first train arriving...Read more
UPDATEUPDATE – The border between China and North Korea is officially reopened for rail freight traffic. This was confirmed by the spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lijian at a press conference on 17...Read more
With the first chemical train arriving from China in Duisburg this week, the starting signal was given to the COSCO VTG China-EU chemical train business. The train carrying 28 ISO tanks of non-dangerous liquids is...Read more
Fruits may no longer be shipped into China via the border of Manzhouli, as the city has announced a ban on imported fruits from Sunday 16 January. Manzhouli, in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,...Read more
Kazachstan’s customs authorities have seen many dollars gone missing due to structural fraud at the border with China. This is according to the Kazakh president, who has ordered a revamp of the border authorities to...Read more
The lingering disruption to the global supply chain has proved a severe strain on business and industry around the world. However, not everyone has been affected in a bad way. Many shipping agents are reporting...Read more
The traffic volumes on the train between Europe and China continued to grow, also in the challenging year of 2021. Throughout the year, 1.46 million TEUs of cargo was shipped by train between Europe and...Read more
Riots in Kazakhstan have come to an end and the situation is stable, just as it is on the railways. Railway traffic currently runs as usual, is the message of the national railway company Kazakhstan...Read more
The Polish provincial government of Lodz has given the green light to the construction of a new multimodal terminal in Karsznice and has submitted an application for EU funding. If funding is approved, a new...Read more
The New Silk Road connection between Xi’an in China and the Valenton terminal in Paris, France, will become frequent and stable. From February 2022, the service will run with one train per week “to alleviate...Read more