Three new Konecranes rubber tyred gantry (RTGs) cranes have been delivered to Container Terminal Saint-Petersburg (CTSP) which will use the new equipment for container handling at its rear yards.
RZD Logistics, Sinotrans, and Far East Land Bridge (FELB) have launched a new train container service that runs between the Chinese Shenyang and the Austrian Enns via the border crossing in Zabaykalsk.
United Transport and Logistics Company - Eurasian Rail Alliance (UTLC ERA) - a JV between Belarusian, Kazakh, and Russian railways - has reduced tariffs, even up to 50%, for the transportation of empty 40- and 45-foot general purpose containers to China.
The combined service, launched in August 2019 in partnership with Modul and Global Ports, saw its first eastbound train dispatched from St. Petersburg on 28 March.
FESCO and RZD Logistics, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, have sea-linked the Chinese port with the Russian one in Vladivostok from which containers head to Europe by rail.
A regular once per week rail container service has been launched by Global Ports, connecting its Ust-Luga Container Terminal with the Tascom terminal in Vorsino in the Kaluga Oblast, south of Moscow.
Kaliningrad Railways, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, and the Port of Oslo have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at establishing a multimodal link between China and Norway.
