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The port of Koper included in the New Via of the Silk
New intermodal service between the Slovenian port of call and the Czech Republic
June 15, 2018
Yesterday to Ningbo, in the within of the event "Maritime Silk Road Port International Cooperation Forum", the president of the Harbour Authority of Koper, Dimitrij Zadel, and Ni Chenggang, representative of the Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group Co. (former Harbour Authority of Ningbo), has undersigned a memorandum of understanding with the scope to increase the exchanges between China and the nations of central Europe and oriental through the port of Koper, agreement that sanctions the formal insertion of the harbour agency Luka Koper and the Slovenian port in the New Via of the Silk.
"The partner Chinese - she has emphasized Zadel - has recognized the strategic position of the port of Koper and its excellent connections with the outback: in average, very 70 freight trains connect daily Koper with the main economic centers of central Europe and oriental".
With regard to railway services from and for the Slovenian port, yesterday Maersk Line has inaugurated a new intermodal connection with the Czech Republic that connects the harbour port of call of Koper with Melnik, to about 40 kilometers to north of Praga. The new service previews 3-4 trains weeklies magazine. Luka Koper has specified that in 2017 beyond 10% of all the Czech containerized trade it is enlivened through the Slovenian port, coming and mostly destined traffic to the zone of Ostrava, in Moravia, and has emphasized that, with the activation yesterday of the new service for Melnik, new are opened opportunity of development of the traffic especially with the part boema of the Czech Republic.
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Yesterday to Ningbo, in the within of the event "Maritime Silk Road Port International Cooperation Forum", the president of the Harbour Authority of Koper, Dimitrij Zadel, and Ni Chenggang, representative of the Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group Co. (former Harbour Authority of Ningbo), has undersigned a memorandum of understanding with the scope to increase the exchanges between China and the nations of central Europe and oriental through the port of Koper, agreement that sanctions the formal insertion of the harbour agency Luka Koper and the Slovenian port in the New Via of the Silk.
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