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METRANS announces an alternative route to the New Silk Road. Here’s what might impress you

METRANS announces an alternative route to the New Silk Road. Here’s what might impress you
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02 / 06 / 2022

In the wake of the war in Ukraine, the usual rail routes on the New Silk Road were also disrupted. They normally went through Małaszewice and Russia, or via Ukraine and entered Slovakia via Dobrá terminal near Čierna nad Tisou, but the trend of increasing shipments was stopped by the war. Although the flow of goods did not stop completely, the Silk Road department in METRANS worked intensively with its partners to find a new route and an alternative to the usual northern corridor.

This was successfully done in the first half of May when a new gateway to Europe for the flow of goods from China opened for METRANS. This is the so-called Middle Corridor when containers from China arrive on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, cross it by boat, and arrive on the European coast in the Romanian port of Constanta. From there, we take over the containers at METRANS and direct them further into the European hinterland.

The pilot train was full on 100% and, despite a longer transit time than the northern route, it arrived according to METRANS standards at its destination station in Mannheim, Germany on time. We have thus been able to respond flexibly to the emerging conditions and provide our customers with a new and alternative route so that goods for import and export to and from Asia never stop.

 

Source: Metrans Newsletters

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