The China-Europe Freight Train transport service in Shanghai has resumed its export business on the express line, after the metropolis eased COVID-19 measures that were put in place against a new wave of coronavirus infections.
Carrying 49 containers of mechanical equipment, one train departed Shanghai for Rostov Oblast in Russia. The journey will take 15 to 17 days. As Shanghai prepares for full work resumption, the express line will increase the frequency of trains up to four runs per month seen during before the epidemic.
In 2022, the Russian transport administration faces unprecedented logistics challenges: massive trade restructuring prompted by restrictive sanctions has necessitated urgent operational decisions to combine different routes through friendly and neutral countries. The biggest changes are expected in cargo turnover with Russia’s largest trading partners — the European Union and China
Maritime transport defied the COVID-19 disruption. In 2020, volumes fell less dramatically than expected and by the end of the year had rebounded, laying the foundations for a transformation in global supply chains and new maritime trade patterns.
