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Three Kazakh-Chinese terminals planned for launch in 2025

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February 24, 2025
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Kazakhstan and China are planning to put three terminals into operation later this year. The plans concern the Almaty GTS-2 logistics complex, the Selyatino terminal…

Russia gets higher rail freight tariffs

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November 11, 2024
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Russian Railways (RZD) is increasing tariffs on its rail network by 13,8 per cent for freight traffic. The hike will come into effect on 1…

Northern Corridor countries want automatic train registration system in 2025

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November 4, 2024
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Kazakhstan has presented plans to launch the so-called “Seamless Transit” project along the Northern Corridor between China and Europe in early 2025. It would enable…

Silk Road volumes via Małaszewicze reach highest point in four years

Nikos Papatolios
October 4, 2024
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The upward development of Silk Road traffic and volumes transiting via Kazakh, Russian and Belarusian rail infrastructure is also confirmed by numbers. Statistics made available…

China cancels Belarusian freight locomotive order due to fear of sanctions

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September 11, 2024
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China is no longer supplying Belarusian Railways with 15 ordered locomotives. The locomotives contain American components that are not allowed to be exported to Belarus,…

Poland and Lithuania fight Belarusian smuggling: ‘State-owned enterprises may also be involved’

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September 6, 2024
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Poland and Lithuania are fighting cigarette smuggling on freight trains coming from their neighbour Belarus. The former seems to encounter a growing number of attempts…

China, Belarus pledge to boost agriculture, freight train cooperation

Bardy Bigglesworth
August 24, 2024
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China and Belarus pledged on Thursday to boost cooperation in agriculture and the China-Europe Railway Express service.

Russian rail faces collapse after Ukraine’s Kursk invasion

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August 15, 2024
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Ukraine’s surprise invasion of the Russian Kursk region has not left the latter’s rail untouched. The attack led to rail congestion in the area, and…

China, Belarus and Kazakhstan to build terminal on Belarusian-Polish border

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June 27, 2024
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China, Belarus and Kazakhstan intend to build a logistics terminal on the Belarusian-Polish border. The three countries signed a memorandum of intent consolidating their plans…

LTG Cargo deals with a rising number of attempts to evade sanctions

Marco Raimondi
June 24, 2024
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Attempts to circumvent Western sanctions on Russia and Belarus via rail through Lithuania grew exponentially between March and May. The Lithuanian national rail freight operator LTG Cargo said that four wagons were blocked and sent back at the Lithuanian border in March, while in May this number increased to 62. The company did not provide…