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Kenya to launch extended modern railway

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will on Wednesday launch phase 2A of Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) linking the capital Nairobi to the resort town of Naivasha, a regional administrator said on Monday.

Mbogo Mathioya, Naivasha sub-county commissioner, said the launch of the 120 kilometers modern railway will coincide with that of Internal Container Depot at a dry port near Naivasha town.

“The SGR extension to Naivasha is now complete and on Wednesday the Head of State will officially launch it by...

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China-Europe railway and Port of Rotterdam extend cooperation

Chinese and Dutch railway link operators on Tuesday, May 21, celebrated three years of successful operation of cargo express between Chengdu and Tilburg and signed a MOU with the Port of Rotterdam to extend subsequent transportation via this route and transit from eastern coastline of North America, Britain, Ireland, Scandinavian and Baltic areas.

Applauded at a festive ceremony, a cargo train loaded with food, automobile and auto parts from the Netherlands, France and Spain departed from the...

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RZD Logistics explores new routes

RZD Logistics has expanded the geography of its railway services from China to Russia by organizing on November 13 the first shipment of a container train from the city Zibo of Shandong province. The train is expected to arrive at Selyatino station (Moscow region) in 14 days.

RZD Logistics organized the first mile of the delivery of 40-foot containers with fast moving consumer goods and equipment by trucks to Zibo station. After that, 36 containers were reloaded to railway. The container train...

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TransContainer offers a rail alternative

On October 28, a container train with coiled steel for a local processing plant arrived in Kaliningrad from the seaport of Pervomaysky (Vladivostok).

The volume of cargo delivered was 96 twenty-foot containers (96 TEU) and the total travel time was 13 days.

A new logistics project for multimodal transportation was developed and implemented by PJSC TransContainer together with the Kaliningrad Railway. The cargo was transported to Vladivostok from the Chinese port of Tianjin by a bulk ship, and...

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