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.
Subject to approval by competition authorities, the Danish freight forwarder specialising in serving trade between Scandinavia and Eastern Europe will become part of DFDS.
The two countries want to add more volume to the already existing container services (from Klaipėda to Odessa and Kiev), set up one for the transportation of trailers (Klaipėda-Odessa), and rail-connect Kyiv, Minsk, Vilnius and Riga together.
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).
