Jun 21 2018

Use of southern Silk Road cuts transit time

The Railcargo Group (RCG) wants to make greater use of the southern Silk Road for hauling goods by rail between China and Europe.

The existing scheduled trains from China to Budapest, and Duisburg (Germany), will stop running along the Belarus-Poland corridor, and begin using the Khorgos-Altynkol border crossing between China and Kazakhstan.

The new southerly route reduces the transit time from 14 to ten days. Read more

Source: ITJ