East-west flow continues to grow

From Smart-Rail partner: Port of Rotterdam:

The volume of rail traffic using the land bridge between Europe and Asia is developing well.

News PoR 20150715

The group of European trans-Siberian operators and forwarders (Geto) says progress has been made – particularly in transport times, reliability, the number and range of products, as well as in the collaboration between participants.

At Geto’s general assembly, it was noted that the upsurge in transit traffic in Asia is continuing, despite the political turbulence between Western Europe and Russia, and the precarious state of the Russian economy. Problems have arisen with products that are on the Russian embargo list and that are subject to more stringent controls when in transit. More : www.geto.ch

Source: ITJ, 15/7/2015