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A train block of Holding InterRail travels from central China to the Czech Republic in 16 days
Crossed Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland
November 14, 2012
Holding InterRail AG, the society of the Helvetic group TransInvest that takes care of railway logistics, have experienced with success a new connection with train block from China to the Czech Republic. The convoy has arrived friday slid to Pardubice after a travel of sixteen days with departure from Wuhan, in central China, and crosswalk of Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland.
The shipment of 50 container from 40 ' cargos of computer elements is carried out by the CRIMT (Lowers Railway Intermodal Transport) of the group Chinese Railways, while Holding InterRail has been the railway operator from the border Cino-Kazakh to the Czech final destination in collaboration with its branch Russian InterRail Trans Siberian Express Service and with its branch Polish InterRail-Polcont.
"The travel record of this train container - it has emphasized the president of Holding InterRail, Hans Reinhard - is realized graces to a grip international collaboration, an innovative logistics and the employment of modern it system to the frontiers". The managing director of the Swiss company, Howard Lamb, has evidenced the importance of the experimental travel in the picture of the project of the "New Via of the Silk" between China and Europe: "with this train - it has explained - we have been able to make new experience for the development of the "electronic train", of which our group he is promoter. I use of the anticipated communication of data for way electronic for the customs inspections and to the frontiers it has contributed enormously to this transit Time record, accelerating the passage to the controls borderers. The average speed of the train - it has specified Lamb - has been on the whole of 700 kilometers to the day. The operations of markup to the border Cino-Kazakh to Alashankou/Dosty have only demanded ten hours and only an average hour and has been necessary in order to obtain the green light to the train".
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