Transcontainer delivers first part of shipment to Russia from China via Amur River

KHABAROVSK. Oct 24 (Interfax) - PJSC Transcontainer (part of the Delo group) tested a new cargo delivery route: containers were shipped from China to Russia along the Amur River, then were sent by rail to the Moscow Transport Hub, the company's press service said.

The report notes that this shipment is a transport industry first: the first ever to use the Amur River as a method for delivering cargo from China to Russia.

"The river part of the route connects the Chinese city of Fuyuan (Heilongjiang Province) with Khabarovsk. After reloading at the Transcontainer terminal at Khabarovsk-II station, the containers travel by company service to the Kupavna station (Moscow Railway). As part of the transportation process, Transcontainer provides containers and flatbed rolling stock," the press service reported.

The first cargo delivered via this route was 50 forty-foot containers containing 100 Chinese-made vehicles. In the future, it is planned to transport about 600 cars in this way: some before the end of river navigation this year, and the balance following the opening of river traffic in the spring.

Transcontainer decided to diversify its transportation geography and use multimodal logistics including water transport based on the steady growth of imports from China and the congestion of the railway infrastructure in the Far East.

Transcontainer is the largest operator of flatbed rolling stock in Russia. It owns a container fleet of 141,000 units with a capacity of about 219,000 TEU and 40,000 flatbeds. The company owns 37 railway terminals in Russia and operates three more via subsidiaries and joint ventures.