The AE66 link sees cargoes sea-routed from China, Japan and Korea to the Russian Vostochny Port, where the load is transhipped onto Trans-Siberian trains heading for Kaliningrad.
The Primorsk-located facility would handle fertilisers, some 11-12mt per year, with the first shipments arriving in 2023 and the construction fully completed in 2024.
FESCO has launched a new intra-Russian container service for carrying consumer goods, linking St. Petersburg with Chita and Blagoveshchensk via Moscow once a week.
Bahnoperator has started connecting the Associated British Ports' harbour in Hull with Xi'an via the Baltic Sea Bridge, a sea shipping service between Mukran and Kaliningrad.
Constructing the dual-fuel (LNG) diesel-electric vessel, designed in co-op with Aker Arctic Technology, will commence this year, with delivery scheduled ahead of the 2025 icebreaking season.
The new route connects Xi'an with Mannheim, with trains crossing the border in Manzhouli-Zabaykalsk towards the Port of St. Petersburg, where the load boards a ship for transhipment in Mukran and final delivery by rail.
The company has taken over the Zabaykalsk International Terminal on the Russian-Chinese border, which will be modernised and combined with the company's facility already operating there.
