Latvia’s railway companies LDz and LDz Cargo Logistika, and UTLC, the Russian, Belarus and Kazakhstan joint company have developed a common tariff for freight railway transport from the Chinese border to the Latvian ports of Riga, Ventspils and Liepaja.
The developed tariff provides for a single fare for transportation of a 40 foot container from the station of Dostyk, the border town of China and Kazakhstan, to Riga Port. The planned duration of transport is 14 days.
“This is an important agreement that, I hope, will result in productive cooperation. I am pleased that in a relatively short time we have managed to reach an understanding with our partners abroad and in Latvia. Practical preparatory work is currently underway to organize a pilot train from China to Riga to verify our ability to our partners to implement the assumed obligations,” Edvins Berzins, president of LDz said.
On July, Latvian Transport Minister Uldis Augulis, the president of LDz Edvins Berzins and the head of China Railways Sheng Guangzu signed a letter of intent on cooperation in developing the train China Railway Express from China to Europe.
It is planned to organize the first completed pilot train from China to Latvia by the end of this year.
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