Freight

Belarusian Railway together with the Kaliningrad oblast branch of Russian Railways, PAO TransContainer, and representatives of the business community (GC “Delo”, TD “Ecopolimery”, OOO “Stroykeramika”, OOO “Lazurit Cargo”) have organized contrailer transportation between Kaliningrad oblast–Lithuania–Belarus–Moscow and Moscow oblast.

Taking into account appeals of the Kaliningrad oblast business community Belarusian Railway provided with competitive tariff conditions on transit contrailer transportation in 2020.

The Kaliningrad Railway dispatched the first contrailer platform with an automobile semi-trailer on a container train on 7 May. The transit time from Kaliningrad to Moscow oblast via Belarus was less than two days. The transportation was twice as fast as road haulage while the tariffs are comparable.

The first export container train with sawn timber was dispatched by the state enterprise Belintertrans – Transport-Logistics Center of Belarusian Railway and the Chinese company Chongqing Valosha Trading Ltd within the framework of the Belt and Road initiative.

The train consists of 46 large-capacity 40-foot containers carrying freight of the woodworking company OOO Stolindrev. The freight will be delivered from Goryn station, Brest Oblast to Tuanjiecun station in Chongqing, China in 12-14 days. By the way, it would take about 40 days to deliver the freight to China by sea.

The new route for container train service helps consolidate trade and economic cooperation between Belarus and China.