Russia (bbabo.net), - The problem of delivering perishable products accumulated on the border between China and Russia was solved by launching a direct train to Moscow. A container train with fresh and frozen fruits, vegetables, berries and other products left Shandong Province in China and will arrive at its destination on February 18, RZD Logistics, a subsidiary of RZD, said. Such deliveries will be cheaper than by sea or by road, the operator promises.
The train will pass through the Zabaikalsk-Manchuria border crossing. It is here that since September 2021, a queue of trucks loaded with perishable products has been growing. As I wrote, the accumulation of trucks is associated with the strengthening of the Chinese side of anti-COVID measures. Until the problem is solved. The day before, Business Ombudsman Boris Titov sent a letter to the Ministry of Transport, indicating that also at the entrances of the Border and Kraskino checkpoints in the Primorsky Territory, many trucks stand idle in queues for days. He proposed to introduce in Primorye a pilot model of a system for reserving the time of travel of vehicles to the checkpoint tested in the Leningrad Region.
The container train passes the Chinese-Russian border without any problems. As explained in RZD Logistics, the company acts as an operator along the entire route, that is, it provides wagons, organizes customs clearance of cargo, payment of tariffs on the territories of China and Russia, as well as delivery of goods on the "first" and "last" miles. The train will arrive at the Selyatino station in the Moscow region. As follows from the list of affiliated persons of the holding, the East-West terminal and logistics center is located in Selyatino, which in March 2021 was included in the list as belonging to the Russian Railways group of persons.
The new route was launched as part of the Agroexpress project. This is one of the joint logistics projects of the Eurasian Economic Union. It is also planned to deliver products from Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus to China and Uzbekistan.
RZD Logistics explains that the rate of cargo transportation by rail is less than by sea and by road. Valery Tretyakov, representative of the Russian Association of Forwarding and Logistics Associations, agrees with this assessment. As a result, suppliers will be able to save on shipping costs, he says. True, it is unlikely that end users will notice the price reduction.
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