Russian Railways to help move coronavirus protective supplies from Wuhan to Europe

Russian Railways, St. Pet

© Vladimir Grigorev

By LoadstarEditorial

02/04/2020

The first train from Wuhan (Hubei Province, China) to Duisburg has resumed regular container transportation between China and Europe since the COVID-19 outbreak.

A train made up of fifty 40-foot containers left Wuhan on March 28, 2020.

They were reloaded onto broad-gauge wagons today, April 1, at the Dostyk station on the border between Kazakhstan and China. The train is now traveling through Kazakhstan and will go through Russia and Belarus on the UTLC Eurasian Railway Alliance route (part of JSC Russian ...

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