News / Another new China-Europe multimodal sea-rail service launches next month

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Next month Russian Railways subsidiary JSC and Belintertrans-Germany (BIT-Germany) launch a multimodal sea-rail service from Altynkol on the Chinese border, via  Kaliningrad, to Hamburg.

Pilot shipments this month and the previous saw a transit time from Chongqing to Hamburg of 12-14 days. The initiative has already welcomed confirmations from DHL, and from ITLG for goods from Xi’an.

The new service will see two trains a day leave for Hamburg, with technology synchronising them with container line schedules, thus reducing shipping times.

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