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Fercam has activated a new service of railway intermodal transport between Europe and China
transit the Time is little more than two weeks and the objective is to come down not more than ten days
February 16, 2016
The logistic group Fercam of Bolzano has activated a new service of railway intermodal transport between Europe and dedicated China is to complete cargos that to groupagistiche shipments. The trains leave from the Chinese terminal of Suzhou, to the west of Shanghai, and with various intermediate stages in internal the productive regions of China and through the transiberiana railway route they reach the triage center of Warsaw in Poland, in order then to be shunted towards various European railway terminals. Same route from Europe towards China. Fercam, with own European intermodal net or street means, cures is the distribution of the goods in arrival in Europe that the collection of the goods in departure.
Fercam has emphasized that the time of distance of the new railway service Euro Landbridge is little more than two weeks, that is transit a halved Time almost regarding the solution by sea. "Also being the cost of the shipment of a advanced container to that marine one - it has found Riccardo Curzio, key account manager Air & Ocean in Fercam - it is however pairs to fifth of the solution with aerial modality and is only therefore a valid alternative for those producing that the tempistiche of by sea cannot afford, but at the same time cannot put up with the aerial transport costs".
Currently the service previews two departures weeklies magazine and every train has a 40 ability to container from 40 feet. Fercam has evidenced that if to hour the ability still is limited, China but importing more and more is produced by Europe, and also from the Italy whose produced Made in appreciated Italy they are a lot on the Chinese market, and consequently an increment of the transport ability is previewed shortly as the new connection will not only serve for the flows in import from China but also for the European exports. "We are sure - it has added Curzio - that with the improvement of the operativity the times of distance will be able to come down not more than ten days and then the service will become truly competitive".
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