UTLC ERA and Belintertrans-Germany have sent the pilot trains from Kaliningrad to Chengdu as a part of the multimodal transport development project through the ports of the Kaliningrad region in China-Europe transit services.
Under the project, two full trains with containers arrived by sea from Rotterdam were sent from the Kaliningrad port through Dostyk to Chengdu on November 7, 2018.
“The results of the pilot shipment are yet to be analyzed. The technology of container trains combining has been applied and has been confirmed by our colleagues. UTLC ERA has been using the combined trains (XL-train) since 2017, which make it possible to use the railways capacity in an optimal way, to reduce costs, to increase efficiency and profitability for the carriers in the first place,” Alexey Grom, the President of UTLC ERA, said.
The first multimodal container transport through the Kaliningrad port is the completion of a large amount of work on a new service launching. Currently, transit trains through the overland terminals of Kaliningrad along the route China – Europe – China are regularly running. “Kaliningrad” Universal Transport and Logistics Center works at the Dzerzhinskaya-Novaya station, and starting from November 2018 UTLC ERA receives and sends three pairs of trains a week at this station, Grom explains.
UTLC ERA expects that the multimodal transport in the context of container transit transport will increase and has great potential, serving as a good complement to the basic land routes. The company is improving the technology and will analyze the readiness of the transport and logistics service.
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