News / China-Europe rail gets Vietnam connection, but huge mode shift brings delays

29/07/2021

Booming China-Europe rail freight has expanded to Vietnam, but high demand and bad weather means lengthy delays.

Due to overstretched deepsea container trades, demand has been growing in South-east Asia for transport connections to Chinese rail hubs, via sea or truck.

Now, with a new Vietnam Railways ...

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THI DIEP NGUYEN
July 30, 2021 at 2:29 am
Hello,
A small remark that current reliability transit time for sea transport from Vietnam to Hamburg never reached 30-35 days in one year now, even the vessel departed on time.
Therefore the competitiveness of rail solution compared to sea transport is obvious, during the turbulent sea transport market. I don’t agree with the point of interviewee….

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