China Shipping Group and a Chinese company for containerized cargo transportation by rail have opened an international container service between Lianyungang, the port city in Jiangsu, and Moscow.

Every train which provides the transboundary cargo transportation has 48 cars and can deliver 98 containers. En-route time is 25 days quicker than the transportation by sea and 10 days quicker than by the Trans-Siberian Railway. The cargo goes from China’s port of Lianyungang via Almaty to Moscow. We will hear much more of this.