“””The train arrived in Kazan from Vladivostok in just 11 days. And if you add the sea leg from China to Vladivostok, it turns out that this route beats any other existing transportation corridor in terms of delivery time, both through the ports of the Northwest and through the ports of the Southern Federal District,”” said Alexei Russol, Director of Key Client Management at FESCO, at the train’s arrival ceremony.
He noted that during the preparation for the launch of the new project Vladivostok-Kazan, an inspection of the infrastructure and capacity of the transport and logistics centers in Tatarstan was carried out. “”During this work, it became very clear how quickly the local industry and e-commerce are developing. The intensive growth and development of the republic, combined with the growth of containerization and the favorable geographical location at the intersection of the main transportation corridors of our country, give the Republic of Tatarstan all the chances to become one of the largest transportation hubs in Russia,”” Russol added.
Tatarstan’s business ombudsman, Farid Abdulganiev, said the container train will run once every two weeks, with plans to increase the frequency in the future. “”The delivery speed is already being fixed by experts to be twice as fast as the traditional delivery methods that we used before and still use on the railway,”” Abdulganiev said.””
On September 6, 2022, a regular container train service was launched on the Vladivostok-Kazan route in the presence of the Head of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, as part of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF). The service is expected to become a new link in the Asia-Russia intermodal transportation chain, connecting Fesco’s regular sea lines with the Russian railway network.
On the same day, an agreement of intent was signed between the government of Tatarstan and Fesco Group on cooperation in the field of regular container rail and intermodal transportation linking the largest economic centers of Tatarstan with other Russian regions, China, countries of Southeast and South Asia, Islamic countries, and European countries. In addition, Fesco and the government of the republic will consider the development of container transportation based on the Sviyazhsk interregional multimodal logistics center (SMMLC).
(TASS news agency)”
