Temat: Trans Eurasia Express from China to Hamburg

Fujitsu Siemens Computers company train
DB Schenker links continents
skip: DB Schenker links continents
More than 10,000 kilometers in around 17 days – The first Trans Eurasia Express from China arrived in Hamburg. DB Schenker launches regular services to China after the festivities for the Chinese New Year.

Departing from Xiangtang, which lies around 700 kilometers north of Hong Kong, 50 containers carrying valuable IT products such as monitors and chassis were dispatched by Fujitsu Siemens Computers on an unusual route. The containers travelled the 10,000 kilometers to Germany by rail. In 18 days, the train crossed through China and Mongolia, reached the Russian border at Irkutsk. It then followed the route of the Trans-Siberian railway via Novosibirsk, Omsk, Yekaterinburg and on to Moscow. From there, it travelled across Belarus and Poland until it finally arrived in Hamburg.

Perfect combination of speed and environmental aspect

Nowadays, most freight transport between Asia and Europe is handled by ship and plane, with only two percent of international transports traveling by rail. The journey by sea takes 30 to 35 days. Airfreight is much faster, but accordingly also costs more. The growing volumes of trade between Europe und China call for higher transport capacities as well as fast but reliable and low-cost connections. There was one reason in particular that convinced Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) to choose this transport route, the first company to do so: “Compared with airfreight, rail transport saves us roughly a quarter of the costs and also 95 percent of CO2 emissions. Rail transport, therefore, is quite obviously the best choice from both the economic and the ecological point of view,” comments Heribert Göggerle, Senior Vice President Supply Operations at FSC. DB Schenker is therefore helping to achieve FSC’s corporate target of ensuring maximum environment friendliness in both the manufacture of its products and its logistics. DB Schenker’s Eurasian landbridge offers the perfect combination of speed and environment friendliness.
Fujitsu-Siemens-Company train: Departure Sept. 19th (Xiangtang)

Fujitsu-Siemens-Company train: Departure Sept. 19th (Xiangtang)

Enlarge image: Fujitsu-Siemens-Company train: Departure Sept. 19th (Xiangtang)

DB Schenker is to offer scheduled rail freight services to China after the festivities for the Chinese New Year in February. Under the product name of the Trans Eurasia Express, two container trains are initially to travel weekly to link up China with Germany in less than 20 days. “Our endurance in pursuing this project is now paying off. Thanks to our cooperation with five other railways, including the Chinese and Russian railways, we are now able to open up an attractive and reliable new trade route for our customers between the markets in China and . We are thus offering an attractive supplement to slower ocean freight and significantly more expensive air freight,“ said Hartmut Mehdorn, CEO and Chairman of the Management Board, on the arrival of the first Trans Eurasia Express in Hamburg.

Investing in the future of rail

“With the introduction of the regular timetable and fixed departure times, this new link in our global network will enable us to offer a new level of quality in the trans-continental exchange of goods. At the same time, we are strengthening our technology leadership at international level,“ said Dr. Norbert Bensel, Head of DB Schenker on the Management Board of DB ML AG responsible for the Transportation and Logistics Division, speaking to journalists in Hamburg. “We have our customers' interest.“

“Operating across the Eurasian Landbridge, the container trains are to link up and with Hamburg, and with a weekly regular service. Interest in the new service has already been shown by companies in the automotive industry, the chemical industry, manufacturers of household goods, and from the engineering and paper industries. The trains will be marketed by DB Schenker's national companies.

10/20/2008

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