Russian Railways

First Japan – Europe reefer rail service launched

The Russian railway companies FESCO Transportation Group and JSC Russian Railways, in cooperation with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan have launched the first rail service for reefer containers from Japan to Europe via the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Refrigerated boxes consist of food, beverages and pharmaceutical products that require special storage, transportation and temperature conditions and are carried out by Dalreftrans, the largest operator of...

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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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Blanked sailings and soaring air rates push shippers to China-Europe rail

While the air freight industry may be wary of the surge in growth of Asia-Europe rail services, more customers are moving there from sea freight, according to one forwarder.
Container traffic from China to Europe via rail grew 34% in the first half of this year, with a 72% rise year on year in June alone.
Exports to China are also gathering pace, albeit from a lower starting point, up 58% in …

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Maersk to double frequency of sea-rail AE19 service for capacity-hit shippers

Maersk is to double the frequency of its AE19 rail-sea service between South Korea and Northern Europe, as shippers and forwarders on the trade continue to struggle to secure ocean and air freight capacity.
The service, operated in cooperation with South Korean freight forwarder Pantos Logistics, will move from monthly to fortnightly and will now include a backhaul leg – so far it has only run westbound.
“Frequent cancellations and congestion in …

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Air cargo: don’t rest on your laurels, other modes are targeting your business

The net seems to be closing in on air cargo. The market is soft; trade is down. But there are other worries for this most fragile of industries. 
Other modes are coming for its business. Yesterday Russian Railways announced that cargo transport on its network between Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries rose 7% year-on-year between January and August. And it is eyeing more. The railway is offering 50% discounts on the transport of a …

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Russian Railways, FESCO launch new technology

Russian Railways PJSC («RZD») and FESCO Transportation Group («FESCO») are launching a service for electronic document flow for intermodal shipments of import freight through the Commercial Port of Vladivostok («VMTP», is part of FESCO Transportation Group), hence being able to reduce transit time by 4 days – from 5 days to 21 hours. The first container freight shipping with the documents processed electronically was made September 4th, 2019, in VMTP in presence of Aleksandr Misharin (the first...

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Russian Railways sees increased box shipments

From January to May 2019, the Russian Railways network transported 1.97 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit containers (TEUs) on all routes, 15.4% more than during the same period in 2018.

Domestic routes saw the shipment of 817,100 TEUs, an increase of 10.3%, while transit containers amounted to 219,200 TEUs, up by 21.1%, export containers totalled 520,700 TEUs, a rise of 13.3%, while the number of containers imported rose to 414,400 TEUs, equivalent to growth of 26.7%.

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Russian Railways, Global Ports ink long term deal

Russian Railways and the Global Ports Group have concluded an agreement on long-term cooperation to develop transport and logistics solutions. The document was signed on June 6 at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by Vladimir Goloskokov, the head of October Railways, and Vladimir Bychkov, the Managing Director of Global Ports.

The agreement covers the implementation of joint activities for the processing of international freight and includes the use of modern and innovative...

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Russian Railways steams ahead with new trans-Siberian service from Japan

Transit corridors across Europe and Asia continue to expand, with Russian Railways boosting links to Japan and Eurasian Rail Alliance aiming for a 1m teu increase by 2024.
The launch of the Trans-Siberian Landbridge for expedited services between Japan and Europe via Russia’s far east was announced by the state carrier and Fesco Transport Group.
A test container left Yokohama station yesterday and is expected to arrive in 18 days, more than …

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FESCO and Russian Railways launch Japan-Europe transit service

FESCO Transportation Group (“FESCO”) and JSC RZD Logistics, subsidiary of JSC Russian Railways, launch the “Trans-Siberian Landbridge”, a joint transit service for express delivery of goods from Japan to Europe through the Russian Far East by the Trans-Siberian railway. On May 23, 2019, the test container was dispatched from the port of Yokohama in the presence of Alexander Misharin, First Deputy CEO of JSC Russian Railways.

The intermodal chain of the “Trans-Siberian Landbridge” covers Japanese...

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