Commissioned by the Polish Material Reserves Agency (a governmental institution which purchases, stores, and distributes strategic reserves), Maersk has organised two rail shipments to Małaszewicze - from Xi'an and Yiwu.
The Russian rail freight haulier has started to carry coal and solid bitumen in order to source more containerised cargo for the eastbound leg of the New Silk Road.
The facility, located in west-central Poland, will receive four new tracks, each 750 m-long, three rail-mounted gantry cranes (capable of serving six trains simultaneously) will be installed, while the storage yard will grow from 4.5k to 10k TEUs.
Cargo operations across the 7 km-long electrified rail stretch, which directly connects the Port of Norrköping to Sweden's Southern Trunk Line, was officially inaugurated on 1 February.
Nurminen Logistics will open new container train connections between Helsinki and Suzhou, Ningbo, and Jinan, following a tripling in the company's China box rail volumes in 2020.
DB Cargo, Mann Lines Multimodal, and UTLC ERA have linked Oslo with Xi'an through a multimodal service that rail-runs from China to the Port of Kaliningrad and then goes by sea to the Norwegian capital.
UTLC ERA, Belintertrans-Germany (BIT-Germany), and Liski have partnered to run a 50 FEU-big container train from Chongqing to Sławków that avoids gauge change in Europe.
For starters, the Ukrainian Intermodal Company (UIC) will organize block trains to and from the Port of Odessa, where HHLA manages the Container Terminal Odessa (CTO).
The daughter company of PKP CARGO has signed a ten-year-long contract for rail & road shipments of sugar from KSC's inland facilities to the company's export terminal in the Port of Gdańsk.
The Norwegian rail freight haulier Cargonet has connected the Port of Gothenburg's Arken Intermodal Terminal with Oslo, running a 580 m-long train in both directions once per week.
