Trans-Eurasia-Express

Routes of the Trans-Eurasia-Express trains

The product name Trans-Eurasia-Express was created for a commercial freight train connection between China in Asia and several destination stations in Europe . There are now a number of other providers of such connections between China and Western Europe.

Infrastructure

In Korgas , on the border between China and Kazakhstan, is a large container terminal developed. There, the containers of a train are transferred from Chinese standard gauge to broad gauge wagons within 45 minutes . At the Polish / Belarusian border, the containers have to be moved again due to the different track widths .

distribution

The Trans-Eurasia-Express is marketed by Trans Eurasia Logistics GmbH (TEL). This company is a joint venture established in March 2008 by the companies DB Mobility Logistics (40%), Rossijskije schelesnyje dorogi (RŽD, 30%), TransContainer (20%) and Kombiverkehr (10%). Its goal is to gradually build up the container train as a block train between Europe and Asia and to take over the coordination between the participating railway companies. Due to the global economic crisis , the connections were not initially offered on the entire originally planned route. The focus was on building up traffic between Germany and Russia and the CIS countries . Since June 2010, logistics trains under the brand name Moscovite have been running regularly on the route from Duisburg to Moscow , which they cover in seven days.

Test trains

The first test train arrived in the port of Hamburg on October 6, 2008 from Xiangtang (west of Zhuzhou and Changsha around 700 kilometers north of Hong Kong ) . 50 containers with high-quality IT products such as monitors and computer chassis were transported . For the first time, a company had rented a complete train ( Company Train ). The containers covered the 10,000 kilometers in 17 days. The route ran from China on the Trans-Siberian Railway via Novosibirsk , Omsk , Yekaterinburg to Moscow; from there it led via Belarus and Poland to Germany.

Another container train left Chongqing on March 20, 2011 as a forerunner of the planned regular traffic and traveled the 10,300-kilometer southern route through Kazakhstan to Duisburg in 16 days . This route is 2000 kilometers shorter than the northern route over the Trans-Siberian, but requires more customs formalities.

On August 2, 2013, a freight train loaded with 51 containers reached the Hamburg-Billwerder transshipment station . The train, organized by the port development company in Zhengzhou , covered the 10,218-kilometer route from there via the southern route in the previous record time of 15 days.

links

Railway with containers of the China Railway Express Co. in Germany, 2016

At the beginning of 2017 there were around 40 regular freight train connections between China and Europe.

European destination stations (in alphabetical order) :

• Antwerp
• Barcelona
• Bayonne
• Bilbao
• Bologna
• Bratislava
• Budapest
• Duisburg-Ruhrorter ports : After the successful test run in March 2012, a weekly connection to Chongqing was set up. From September 2014 four train pairs marketed by TEL were en route to China every week. While only 4000 TEU containers were transported in 2012 , in 2015 it was already 28,000 TEU and five pairs of trains a week. 40,000 containers were transported in 2016.
• Gothenburg
• Győr
• Kotka
• Hamburg
• Kornwestheim
• Leipzig : Since September 2011, a container train has been running every day on behalf of the BMW plant in Leipzig via the Leipzig-Wahren station there to Shenyang . An average of 36 containers are transported with these trains  , they take 23 days for the 11,000 kilometer route.
• London
• Lyon
• Madrid : There has been a connection to Yiwu since January 2015 . With a distance of 13,000 kilometers, it is the longest train connection in the world.
• Małaszewicze (here implementation between broad gauge and standard gauge )
• Munich
• Nuremberg : weekly container train connection to and from Chengdu since October 2015 ; since 2018 twice a week
• Prague : On September 9, 2017, a connection from Yiwu to Prague was offered for the first time.
• Rotterdam
• Trieste
• Wackersdorf in the Upper Palatinate : Since November 2010, a container train has been running once a week on behalf of BMW to Shenyang . An average of 36 containers are transported with these trains  , they take 23 days for the 11,000 kilometer route.
• catfish
• Vienna : On April 12, 2018, a connection between Vienna and Chengdu began .
• Zeebrugge : Volvo has been operating a connection between Zeebrugge and its Chinese plant in Daqing since May 2017 . Medium-class sedans of the S90 series manufactured in China are transported . The connection will initially be operated once a week.

See also

• Asian highway project
• One Belt, One Road ("New Silk Road")
• New Eurasian Continental Bridge
• Trans-European Networks
• Yuxinou

literature

• Tom Miller: China's Asian Dream: Empire Building along the New Silk Road . Zed Books, February 2017, ISBN (Paperback) 9781783609239.
• NN: List of Container and Contrailer Trains of the Railways of the OSJD Member Countries (as of October 13, 2017) . In: OSJD Bulletin 6/2017, pp. 61–78.
• The branch relies on "shamese" · New Silk Road: rail offers between Asia and Europe are growing · They are fast, but also expensive . In: Special supplement container in the daily port report of October 13, 2017, p. 7, DVV Media Group, Hamburg 2017, ISSN  2190-8753

Web links

• Trans Eurasia Logistics GmbH website
• DB mobil tv: “Business. Makers and Markets: The Trans Eurasia Express " ( Memento from November 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In twee weken van China naar Duisburg (in two weeks from China to Duisburg). Nieuwsblad Transport, October 28, 2016, accessed October 29, 2016 (Dutch). 
2. ↑ trans-eurasia-logistics.com: About TEL
3. ↑ trans-eurasia-logistics.com: Company information ( Memento from August 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ See Verkehrsrundschau, "DB is not planning a freight train Germany-China for the time being". June 25, 2009. Retrieved June 25, 2009 . 
5. ↑ See Trans Eurasia Logistics GmbH, Innovative Eisenbahnlogistik: Fast connections with the Moscovite. (PDF; 986 kB) 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved September 12, 2011 . 
6. ↑ See www.n-tv.de, "Trans-Eurasia-Express", freight trains to China. September 20, 2008, accessed January 22, 2009 . 
7. ↑ See DB Schenker, freight train from China reaches Duisburg after 10,300 kilometers. (PDF; 50 kB) April 5, 2011, archived from the original on December 30, 2013 ; Retrieved September 12, 2011 . 
8. ^ First freight train from Zhengzhou arrived in Hamburg. DB Schenker , August 2, 2013, archived from the original on November 5, 2013 ; Retrieved August 12, 2013 . 
9. ↑ China adds fuel to speed up 'Railway Express' to Europe , Reuters, October 12, 2016
10. ↑ Verkehrsrundschau: Freight train from China arrives in London In: verkehrsrundschau.de , accessed on January 19, 2017
11. ^ Ministry of Transport and Construction of the Slovak Republic: First trial container train from China arrives in Slovakia . In: OSJD Bulletin 6/2017, p. 49.
12. ^ Press office of the Rail Cargo Group of the ÖBB holding: First container train from Hungary to China launched . In: OSJD Bulletin 6/2017, p. 51.
13. ↑ duisport.de (May 20, 2018)
14. ↑ Press release: Trans-Eurasia-Logistic: “Regular train connection between Chongqing and Duisburg” , March 30, 2012
15. ↑ Trans Eurasia Logistics - News: As of today 4 departures per week from Duisburg to China, Russia and CIS Countries (vv). Trans Eurasia Logistics GmbH, September 16, 2014, accessed on October 29, 2016 (English). 
16. ^ Nicolai Noeckler: Heavy load on the new silk road. (PDF) In: Railways, Edition 03/2016. DB Schenker Rail, December 2015, accessed on October 29, 2016 . 
17. ↑ Jens-Oliver Voß: Record: In 2016, DB transported over 40,000 containers between China and Germany. In: Central press release. Deutsche Bahn, December 29, 2016, archived from the original on December 31, 2016 ; accessed on December 31, 2016 . 
18. ↑ Verkehrsrundschau: “DB Schenker starts rail transport to China” , September 29, 2011
19. ↑ Deutsche Bahn AG: "So far, around 200 container trains for BMW have been driven from Germany to China" ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), DB Schenker press release, May 11, 2012
20. ↑ Ana Carbajosa: Sale de Madrid el primer tren piloto rumbo a China . In: El País . January 30, 2015, ISSN  1134-6582 ( elpais.com [accessed January 29, 2019]).
21. ↑ Ana Carbajosa: El tren Madrid Yiwu circula a medio gas . In: EL PAÍS . March 21, 2016 ( elpais.com [accessed October 7, 2017]).
22. ^ NN: List of Container and Contrailer Trains , p. 67.
23. ↑ China - Chances and Risks of the New Silk Road . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on May 19, 2018]).
24. ↑ New Silk Road: Nuremberg and China are moving closer together @ br.de, accessed November 22, 2018
25. ↑ VerkehrsRundschau: Cargo-Partner starts new service from Yiwu to Prague. Retrieved October 8, 2017 . 
26. ↑ Verkehrsrundschau: “DB Schenker starts rail transport to China” , September 29, 2011
27. ↑ Deutsche Bahn AG: "So far, around 200 container trains for BMW have been driven from Germany to China" ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), DB Schenker press release, May 11, 2012
28. ↑ Let's go, have a good trip! | Rail Cargo Group Blog . In: Rail Cargo Group Blog We write about rail . ( railcargo.com [accessed April 21, 2018]).
29. ^ Franziska Niess: Volvo: Cars travel by train from China to Europe . ( eurotransport.de [accessed October 7, 2017]).