Chinese rail operator CdiRS has launched the first rail shuttle between China and the Netherlands, providing weekly services. Under the plans, the operator and its Dutch partner, RailPortbrabant, part of the GVT Group intends to run the service five times a week as of late next year.
The Chengdu-Tilburg-Rotterdam-Express reaches its destination ‘door-to-door’ in 15 days and crosses Kazakhstan and Moscow. Chengdu offers railway connections to Chinese cities, such as Shanghai, Ningbo, Wuhan, Yiwu, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Nanning and Kunming, as well as to Vietnam and South Korea. “Cargo from China is often shipped by sea, short sea, from the port of Rotterdam to the UK, Scandinavia and Portugal,” said Roland Verbraak, General Manager at GVT Group of Logistics.
“Thanks to this shuttle, we are now also adding a fast connection by land. We strongly believe in this concept, partly because a large part of Europe can efficiently be reached via the excellent short sea connections from Rotterdam. And vice versa, of course,” Allard Castelein, CEO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority said.
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