Topic: Shanghai

Port connections Spanish rail-sea hub will see more traffic from Asia thanks to MSC

MSC has revived its DRAGON service connecting Asia with the Hutchison Ports BEST terminal at the port of Barcelona. The terminal is one of Southern…
Rail Cargo Group to expand in Serbia and China

Rail Cargo Group (RCG), the freight arm of the Austrian Federal Railways (OBB), will expand with a new branch and a new carrier in Serbia…
Olaf Scholz visits Beijing: ‘The world needs China’

The train coming from Hamburg, prepared for the China International Import Expo (CIIE), successfully reached the exhibition in Shanghai on 6 November. The train departed…
LOCKDOWNS How does the lockdown in Shanghai affect rail freight?

From the early hours of 28 March, a lockdown is in place to control the Covid-19 epidemic in Shanghai. Shanghai’s Pudong and Paxi districts entered…
New lockdowns in China, concern for more supply chain turmoil

Several cities on the east of China were placed in lockdown over the weekend due to a new outbreak of the coronavirus. Among the cities…
Omikron just another hit to China-Europe supply chain

The rapidly spreading Omikron mutation of the coronavirus could trigger a boom in sick staff. The international trade union International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is…
New collaboration seeks more volumes between China-Russia

Transport volumes between mainland China and Russia have growth potential. The same applies to the volumes between Chinese and Russian Far East ports with an…
No subsidies but surviving: ‘it is a matter of right timing’

There are not many private railway companies setting up railway services between Europe and China, but Toprail is doing exactly that. “If you incur losses,…
New beginning: Shanghai Express arrives in Hamburg

The first container block train from Shanghai reached the DUSS terminal in Hamburg on October 25. It is to be followed by many other westbound,…
New Hamburg-Shanghai route promises sufficient eastbound volumes

DB Cargo Eurasia launched a new link between Hamburg and Shanghai. The first eastbound train between the two destinations is currently on its way, with…
Typhoon Chanthu hits China, Shanghai and Ningbo closed

Several terminals in the ports of Shanghai and Ningbo have been shut down since Sunday as a precaution to Typhoon Chanthu, which arrived in China…