News / New China-Europe rail services on track to steal air and sea freight volumes

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2017 will be the year that China-Europe rail services shift supply chain patterns.

As the first train from China rolled into London today, having left on new year’s day, the CEO of Kazakhstan’s dry inland port, Khorgos Gateway, told The Loadstar the services would eat into sea and air freight volumes.

“We now have two trains per day, with about 80 teu and 41 containers per train,” explained Karl Gheysen. “It runs three times a week to Duisberg, but we have also have services ...