Topic: RZD

Maersk freight train. Photo: Col André Kritzinger

Maersk’s AE19 service paces up after Suez blockage

Maersk’s AE19 rail service using the Trans-Siberian route is about to experience another increase of trips following its customers’ growing demand. Eastbound trains will now travel once per week instead of every fifteen days, while...Read more

13-04-2021|Comment|author: Nikos Papatolios

New Silk Road carries another medical train, this time to Paris

A block train loaded with medical equipment has left the Chinese province of Jiangxi today, 4 June, headed for Paris. The service is organised by Russian Railways, SNCF Forwardis, COSCO Group and JSC UTLC ERA,...Read more

04-06-2020|Comment|author: Majorie van Leijen

Russia tests new container train to China via Mongolia

Russian Railways (RZD) is testing a new container service from Yekaterinburg in Russia to the Chinese city of Erlianhot (Erenhot) via the territory of neighbouring Mongolia. The new service is expected to improve connection between...Read more

01-11-2018|Comment|author: Mykola Zasiadko