Hellmann Worldwide Logistics starts new container train service between China and Europe

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) April 29, 2022 - German company Hellmann Worldwide Logistics will start a new container train service linking the Chinese city of Suzhou with Kazakhstan's Caspian Sea port of Aktau. It will operate weekly or monthly. The service will comprise 41 cards with 40-foot containers travelling from Suzhou in Jiangsu province, some 100 km west of Shanghai. It will then cross Kazakhstan to the country’s Caspian Sea port of Aktau. This is another example of traders and logistics setting up new trade routes between China and Europe to avoid Russian territory. Following its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has been subject to massive Western sanctions. This means many businesses cannot, or will not, use Russian transport facilities and routes. From the port of Aktau, feeder ships will transport containers to the Azerbaijan’s port of Baku on the western side of the Caspian Sea. From there, containers will be transported by train to Georgia’s Poti port and onwards across the Black Sea to Turkey, Romania or Bulgaria. Trans-Caspian International Transport Route The railway companies of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Turkey - the countries participating in the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) - plan to create a joint venture "Middle Corridor" at the beginning or in mid-2023. The TITR allows European and Chinese companies to bypass Russia, which until now also sanctioned the transit of certain types of goods its country. A number of Russian entities are under sanctions from the international community following Russia’s annexation of the Crimea in 2014. The sanctions have expanded massively since the February 24 invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The importance of this route was underlined with the inclusion of Georgia and Azerbaijan in the European Union (EU) TEN-T network. The route passes through the seaports of Aktau and Kuryk, then along the feeder and ferry line to the Azeri ports of Baku and Alyat. Then, along the railways of Azerbaijan and Georgia to the Georgian Black Sea ports of Batumi and Poti. Further, via the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway to the Turkish ports of Istanbul and Mersin or alternatively across the Black Sea to Constanta in Romania or Bulgaria’s ports of Varna and Burgas. Hellmann Worldwide Logistics is an international logistics service provider with air, land and sea service. It has been operating a regular weekly train on the New Silk Road between Chongqing, China, and Bremen since mid-January. More PortSEurope news about international transport corridors Copyright (C) PortSEurope. All Rights Reserved. 2022.

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