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What China-EU freight trains need most is far greater terminal capacity
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MORE than 400 delegates from attended a recent forum for Russian gauge railways in Vienna, reported Leicestershire's Global Rail News.
The focus was how European and Russian gauge railways can accommodate the ever-increasing rise in rail freight between China and Europe which last year was 415 TEU, a 60 per cent increase since 2016.
Russian Railways CEO Oleg Belozerov advised that this was to grow to 40 million TEU by 2040.
Accommodating this increase is a huge challenge, although less so for Russian Railways for which 1.5 kilometre-long freight trains are the norm.
The big problem was increasing terminal capacity, especially where there is a change of gauge. With almost all this traffic currently passing through Brest on the Belarus-Polish border, the need for additional routes was stressed.
One such route is the provision of a Russian gauge route from China to Vienna by a new 500-kilometre broad gauge line from Kosice in Slovakia to Vienna.
This project, which has been proposed for some time, is now looking increasingly attractive, although this would provide a route to China via Ukraine which is a member of Breitspur Planungsgesellschaft, the four-nation joint venture formed to build this line.
Keir Fitch, the European Commissioner head of railway safety and interoperability, said European railways were a significant barrier to Euro Asian rail freight.
Mr Fitch said EU's shorter freight trains and busy passenger lines presented a bottleneck to freight traffic from China.
He described how this was being addressed by the development of European freight corridors.
The focus was how European and Russian gauge railways can accommodate the ever-increasing rise in rail freight between China and Europe which last year was 415 TEU, a 60 per cent increase since 2016.
Russian Railways CEO Oleg Belozerov advised that this was to grow to 40 million TEU by 2040.
Accommodating this increase is a huge challenge, although less so for Russian Railways for which 1.5 kilometre-long freight trains are the norm.
The big problem was increasing terminal capacity, especially where there is a change of gauge. With almost all this traffic currently passing through Brest on the Belarus-Polish border, the need for additional routes was stressed.
One such route is the provision of a Russian gauge route from China to Vienna by a new 500-kilometre broad gauge line from Kosice in Slovakia to Vienna.
This project, which has been proposed for some time, is now looking increasingly attractive, although this would provide a route to China via Ukraine which is a member of Breitspur Planungsgesellschaft, the four-nation joint venture formed to build this line.
Keir Fitch, the European Commissioner head of railway safety and interoperability, said European railways were a significant barrier to Euro Asian rail freight.
Mr Fitch said EU's shorter freight trains and busy passenger lines presented a bottleneck to freight traffic from China.
He described how this was being addressed by the development of European freight corridors.