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 ...

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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