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DB Cargo will close the 2018 with 90 thousand container transported via railroad between Germany and China
In 2020 a traffic of 100 thousand is previewed teu
October 5, 2018
To ten years from the start of the realized railway connections from the German group Deutsche Bahn (DB) for the containerized cargo transport between China and Germany the activity volume is increased esponenzialmente passing from one to beyond 3.600 trains and reaching in a 2018 annual traffic pairs to 90.000 teu, with the objective of traguardare the 100,000 teu in 2020.
"That which it is begun on October 6, 2008 with a single train - it has emphasized Alexander Doll, councilman for the transport goods and the logistics of the Board of DB Management - has become for a long time a success history". A success that it has induced the German group has to institute specific unit DB Eurasia Cargo with the scope to increase the rail shipments between Europe and Asia. Moreover Doll has announced that, in the within of the initiatives for the development of the railway activity on this director, by this autumn the activation of a marine service between Kaliningrad and Rostock with coming the scope will be experienced to collect goods from the Baltic Sea.
Group DB has begun to offer to regular services between China and Germany in 2011. Currently this draft is covered medium in 14-16 days, with trains that cover between 10 thousand and 12 thousand kilometers. The convoys are long until 600 meters in Europe and thousand meters in sections of the connection in Russia.
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