Until very recently, Western buyers of merchandiseía china teníTwo different transport options. mayístill have chosen ráI ask, but transport toéprisoner is deliberately expensive, or stick to a good sea transportítimus with all its años. Worth mentioning, the providers of this úlast tooén decided to raise prices in order to recover pélosses due to the economic crisisólittle world. But a third optionóI didn't show upó: transcontinental freight rail transport. When importing from china, rail connections are beingán becoming a trend.
Centuries ago, Europe and China were connected by the famous Silk Road, driving from the ancient capital of China, Xi’an, at the gate of Europe, Constantinople. China exportó that, paper and iron, pero la expansionón de las tribu túand the development of the sea routeítima around the Cape of Good Hope causedó his disappearanceón. With stable polípa ticaíses post-owlséticos, the rebirth of the Silk Road is possible: instead of caravans, The distance between China and Europe isá covered by container trains.
The charge usually passes throughés of two vímain aces: the northern highway that runs from Vladivostok throughés from Moscowú to Poland and, además, the crossings of southern Kazakhstán, Russia and Ukraine. The trans-Siberian railway, which is the main part of the north highway, it has Más de 100 añyears old and is considered to be the railway más long the world; the Kazakh highwayáIt's not relatively new, the connectionón cross-border railway was built in the déeach of the 90.
The first train loaded with Chinese cargo arrivedó to Hamburg from Xiangtan, the 6 October 2008. The connectionón is operated by Trans-Eurasia Logistics, for now, the companyñíto offers services en route from Beijing – Duisburg (vía Zabaikalsk, 14-26 días). From Duisburg, the load can be más fáeasily sent.
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