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The Kazakh-Chinese border saw significantly more trains in 2024

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January 15, 2025
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Rail checkpoints on the Kazakh-Chinese border have not been sitting still in 2024. That much was already known, especially in light of the severe congestion…

Chinese rail freight posts record one billion quarterly tonnes

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October 22, 2024
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The Chinese state-owned rail operator Chinese State Railway Group (CSRG) has grown its quarterly freight volumes to a new record high. In the third quarter…

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…

Here’s all you need to know about the Eurasian transport corridors

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July 26, 2024
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At RailFreight.com, we often write about the Eurasian transport corridors. These are important pieces of infrastructure for international trade flows. It may not always be…

How the Middle Corridor is being optimised to facilitate more trains

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July 25, 2024
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The Middle Corridor is growing and developing. In the first half year of 2024, 9,3 million tonnes of freight travelled along it, an increase of…

China – Europe traffic grows by 15 per cent year-on-year in June

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July 17, 2024
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In June, the amount of trains on the China – Europe route grew by 15 per cent year-on-year. The increase in traffic coincides with a…

‘CKU line cannot compete with Kazakh infrastructure for China – Europe freight’

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July 16, 2024
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After a long time of political tug-of-war, China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan seem to have agreed on an outline for the China – Kyrgyzstan – Uzbekistan…

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…

China-Europe: railways are congested and container rates are spiking

Marco Raimondi
May 30, 2024
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China-Europe trade corridors are currently facing some significant issues concerning container rates as well as congestion along the railways. Concerning rail freight, congestion concerns the Alashankou and Khorgos border crossings between China and Kazakhstan. Moreover, some issues are starting to surface at the Małaszewicze border crossing in Poland. Rail congestion is having a serious impact…

The Middle Corridor remains too expensive as an alternative China-Europe route

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May 2, 2024
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The Middle Corridor, a multimodal China-Europe freight route through Central Asia, has garnered international interest as a potential alternative to transporting freight through Russia. Illustratively, the EU has allocated 10 billion euros for its development. The corridor remains too expensive to become a route of preference, explains Roland Verbraak, general manager of BTTMultimodalGroup. BTT, a…