This year the number of railway containers travelling from China to Europe via the Belarusian city of Brest has doubled in comparison with 2016, according to Brest Oblast Vice Governor Andrei Klets. Some 100,000 railway containers have been transferred from the broad gauge to the European gauge in Brest this year as part of the new Silk Road.
This number is expected to increase by several times in the future. Chinese companies and Belarusian Railways intend to increase the number of containers up to 500,000 by 2020, said Andrei Klets. Thanks to cooperation with the Chinese company Wuhan Asia-Europe Logistics, freight traffic via the Brest hub of Belarusian Railways has increased in both directions.
An agreement on cooperation between the Brest branch of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the International Trade Facilitation Office of Hubei Province was signed. The agreement will enable information exchange and cooperation between the two companies, Andrei Klets said. It is important because requirements of various markets change rapidly these days. “The agreement will allow us to promptly get authentic information so that we could certify our products for export in a timely manner, including export to China,” concluded the Brest Oblast vice governor.
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