ocean-rail

Another new China-Europe multimodal sea-rail service launches next month

Next month Russian Railways subsidiary JSC and Belintertrans-Germany (BIT-Germany) launch a multimodal sea-rail service from Altynkol on the Chinese border, via  Kaliningrad, to Hamburg.
Pilot shipments this month and last saw a transit time from Chongqing to Hamburg of 12-14 days. The initiative has already welcomed confirmations from DHL, and from ITLG for goods from Xi’an.
The new service will see two trains a day leave for Hamburg, with technology synchronising them …

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Demand puts pressure on Maersk Spot, but ocean-rail service now permanent

Strong customer demand has forced Maersk to remove its Maersk Spot product from some departures.
Maersk Spot offers a loading guarantee, online booking and a fixed price and forwarders reported it had been disabled, with “Maersk unable to get the bookings away on westbound,” said one.
“Even if you want to pay, you can’t play!”
A spokesperson for Maersk told The Loadstar: “We can confirm that we have taken the Maersk Spot product off the …

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