They are in increase the transported containerized volumes on the railway line Transiberiana



The transported volume of container on the railway line Transiberiana is in increase. According to the data I am diffused by TransContainer, society controlled from railway group Russian JSC Russian Railways (RZD) and participated from FESCO Transportation, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Transfingroup Asset Management, in the first half of the 2013 volume of containerized trade transported on the Transiberiana has been 801.361 pairs to container teu, with an increase of +4.2% regarding the first semester last year. TransContainer has specified that the export traffic is increased +3.3%, the traffic of transit of +4.2% and the traffic of import of +27%, while the national traffic Russian inside, that it is pairs to about half of the entire traffic container enlivened on the line (458,216 teu), has recorded a decrease of -1,7%.

The Coordinating Council on Trans-Siberian Transportation (CCTT), the association founded in 1997 from the Russian ministry of the Railroads, from the railway group German Deutsche Bahn, from the Association of European Transsiberian Operators (GETO) and from the Korean International Freight Forwarders Association (KIFFA) that currently it counts beyond hundreds associated between companies and institutions, has evidenced that the increase is hauled by the increase of the number of employed trains container on the line: in the first semester of the 2013 containers transported on trains container along the Transiberiana it has grown of +34.5% going up to 241.337 teu.

To such purpose CCTT it has announced that it is taking in consideration the organization of new trains container that travel between Europe and the Far East. The association has specified that, in particular, container is working to the organization of trains trains that connect Rotterdam with Moscow, Rotterdam with China and Brest with Ulan Bator. Moreover, in collaboration with the Organisation for Co Between Railways (OSJD) and with the Comité International DES Transports ferroviaires (CIT), it is promuovendo the realization of a service between the Chinese city of Chongqing and that German of Duisburg.

From part its railway group RZD has announced to have operated in the first semester of this year on the Transiberiana 637 trains container, that is almost 40% in more regarding the first six months of 2012, realizing a volume total of containerized trade pairs to 63.556 teu (+14.3%).