Chongqing-Amsterdam container rail service to start this year

THE scheduled container rail service from Chongqing to Hamburg and Amsterdam is likely to commence later this year with an expected transit time of 11 days, Xinhua reported.

The service is said to be likely to attract part of the shippers from Shanghai and Jiangsu to ship their cargo via Chongqing.

Chongqing plans to build eight high-speed railways with a maximum speed at 250 to 300 kilometres an hour in the future and become a national railway hub in China.

The city aims to develop three international transportation routes in the future. One is shipping cargo on Yangtze River out to the Pacific Ocean. Another is transporting via Xinjiang's Alataw Pass, passing Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and Netherlands to Rotterdam and then to the Atlantic Ocean. The third is moving cargo on the rail line running through Chongqing, Guiyang, Kunming, Dali and Ruili, via Central Burmese city of Mandalay and port city Sittwe to the Indian Ocean.
(Source:www.schednet.com)