As of 26 October, China United Lines (CULINES) will start operating a route that connects London Container Terminal with Shanghai, Ningbo, and Yantian.
The first train set, comprising 43 forty-foot containers loaded with timber, has been dispatched from Kyiv and will arrive in Xi'an after an 18-day-long journey.
COSCO Shipping Ports (CSPL), part of the Shanghai-based COSCO Shipping Group, will take a 35% share in Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT) operated by Hamburger Hafen und Logistik (HHLA).
The terminal, located on the island of Kronstadt near St. Petersburg, has handled its first batch of cars (1,097) of the Chinese Chery and Geely brands, brought onboard KESS Line's Seine Highway from Zeebrugge.
The Turku-headquartered company has signed contracts with China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Weihai) for the complete basic and detail design packages of three Stena E-Flexer ferries, nos. 10-12.
Beijing Trans Eurasia International Logistics and Bahnoperator have launched an eastbound block train service that routes shipments from Europe to Dalian in China for onward shipping by sea to South Korea and Japan.
