(Source: Forbes, January 28, 2016)
NEW YORK — “This was all started one hundred years ago by the Russians,” DHL’s Konrad Godlewski stated as he pointed to a long line that extended across a giant map of Eurasia which was prominently displayed at the front of an office in the Suzhou Railway Consolidated Freight Station, a bonded logistics zone in the east of China. “The Trans-Siberian,” he continued, “is what began this whole idea of shipping by rail between Europe and Asia.”
Now, a century later, this idea has been exponentially intensified as a new network of rail routes are being forged between east and west. As a key component of the Silk Road Economic Belt, the overland portion of China’s Belt and Road initiative, direct cargo trains are now connecting together an ever-increasing number of cities in China and Europe. With key improvements in route options, performance, and customs protocols, trans-continental rail transport is set for a renaissance.
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