News / European rail operators pick up cargo traffic from China

European rail freight may have been having a torrid time recently, but it appears to have got volumes back from China – even with Russia’s continuing onslaught against Ukraine.

Alexey Shilo, deputy general director of Russian Railways, said there had been a 44% spike in Europe-bound Chinese rail freight transiting Russia, as shippers seek alternative routes to the lengthy deviations resulting from attacks on box ships in the Red Sea.

“There is a certain change in ...