News / 2M means to launch Ukrainian rail-river export service, despite 'challenges of war'

TIS Container Terminal Port Yuzhnyi Ukraine. Credit DP World.

MSC, as part of the 2M Alliance, is to launch a rail-river export service for Ukrainian cargo in the Odessa region heading to Constanta in Romania, for onward connections to global destinations.

Speaking exclusively to The Loadstar, Odessa-based consultancy Informall said the first train was due to leave DP World’s TIS Pivdennyi terminal in Port Yuzhnyi, 40km east of Odessa this week.

However, it added, although the service had been announced, such operations  were “very challenging due to the war”, and not ...