Since the end of next month's DB Schenker Rail Automotive, the division of the German railway Deutsche Bahn (DB) that deals with rail service to the automotive industry, on behalf of the BMW will launch a new daily service for the transportation of auto parts from Leipzig in Shenyang, in northeastern China, through the Trans-Siberian railway.
The service has already been activated and a start was made last week by the German Leipzig-Wahren terminals. The train will arrive in Shenyang in three weeks on a journey of about 11,000 km through Poland, Belarus and Russia. Along the route the containers are transferred by crane from one convoy to another first time a Polish-Belarussian border, to travel on the broad gauge lines, and again at the Russian-Chinese border to Manzhouli, to return to travel on lines standard gauge. At the end of November the service will take on a daily basis.
"With a transit time of 23 days - said Karl-Friedrich Rausch, DB Mobility Logistics adviser and head of transport and logistics - the trains are faster at least two times the next maritime and land transport in China. This provides an important incentive for the service Eurasian Land Bridge. We are grateful to BMW for having placed their trust in this line of environmentally friendly transportation. "
Schenker DB Logistics, the logistics division of DB Group, has established a new logistics center in the north of Leipzig from which to send the parts for the BMW plant in Shenyang and the Rosslyn, South Africa. The containers are loaded at the logistics center and then transported by truck to intermodal terminal in Leipzig-Wahren. Once the logistics center will be at full capacity will employ 600 new employees and some 50 containers loaded on a daily basis.
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Since the end of next month's DB Schenker Rail Automotive, the division of the German railway Deutsche Bahn (DB) that deals with rail service to the automotive industry, on behalf of the BMW will launch a new daily service for the transportation of auto parts from Leipzig in Shenyang, in northeastern China, through the Trans-Siberian railway. 
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