United Transport and Logistics Company – Eurasian Rail Alliance (UTLC ERA), the Kaliningrad Railway and Kaliningrad Commercial Sea Port in cooperation with Belintertrans-Germany have launched a pilot block train from Kaliningrad to Chengdu in China.
The first two trains with containers shipped by sea from Rotterdam were sent from Kaliningrad port on November 7. They are expected to arrive at the Dostyk/Altynkol rail crossing on November 14.
The new route is part of the project aimed at developing multimodal transportation schemes between China and Europe via Kaliningrad Oblast ports.