russian railway © Christopher Rawlins
© Christopher Rawlins

As air freight rates surge with Chinese production begining to come back, rail services too are starting to re-launch.

Davies Turner said yesterday its Express China service would restart on 13 March.

It has a fixed-day, weekly direct rail import service from the China to Germany and the UK.

“In keeping with normal practice, our Express China Rail Service did not operate during the Chinese New Year holiday break, and its suspension has been further extended due to Covid-19,” explained Tony Cole, head ...

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  • Rail bridge cargo

    March 05, 2020 at 2:53 pm

    The comment on transit times Xi’an to Duisburg is not correct we currently operate both Fcl and lcl on this same route and our transit time is between 12-14 days not 18 days
    Please ask us if you want faster service and we operated second week after CHINESE new year on rail regular service with no bottlenecks