The parties have agreed to re-establish Volvo's train, that in the past connected the company's facilities in Sweden with its factory in the Belgian Ghent, but which has come to a halt because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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.
The multimodal route connects the ports of Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe with Hamburg and Duisburg via the Chinese Port of Taiciang and then along the New Silk Road through Xi'an, Alashankou, Nur-Sultan, and Brest/Małaszewicze.
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.
LKW WALTER, Stena Line, the Port of Kiel, and CFL multimodal have jointly launched a new kombi service that runs between Kiel’s Schwedenkai terminal and the Intermodal Terminal Bettembourg-Dudelange.
The Austrian Rail Cargo Group has launched a new regular rail service for containers and ro-ro cargo units that goes between the Port of Lübeck and Verona.
