GCS Group member Ruscon has commenced a weekly fixed-day block train service from Moscow to the Far East of Russia, operated by a 154-TEU capacity train.

FedEx will increase its shipping rates by an average of 3.9 percent on March 31

GERMAN express delivery giant DHL and Etihad Cargo have agreed to share capacity on DHL's new five times a week freighter service operating through Abu Dhabi.

THE Kazakhstan Temir Zholy railway moved 16 million tonnes of cargo last year, with container volume increasing four per cent year on year, said company president Askar Mamin.

THE second run of the Xi'an-Kazakhstan Cargo Railway, which is called the 'Chang'an Line', set off with 15 TEU on December 28 2013. Compared to the first run of the service, the second one added Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan as destinations besides Kazakhstan

CARGAS del Atlantico, the Uruguayan member of the Famous Pacific Shipping (FPS) Group freight forwarding and consolidation system, has launched a new transhipment service via Montevideo to neighbouring Paraguay, that drastically cuts transit times for Far East imports from up to four months, to just 40 days.

THE completion of the new bridge over the Mekong River connecting Laos and Thailand has opened an unbroken Kunming expressway to Bangkok

EASTERN China hinterland city recently held a promotional campaign for the planned "New Eurasian Land Bridge", which is a new railway cargo transportation route to Europe.

DB SCHENKER Norway is expanding its train solution in combination with trucks connecting Oslo faster to the north of the Arctic Circle by increasing its North Rail Express to fives times a week from February.

GROWING cross border trade will create a boom in demand for the trucking sector in south east Asia, particularly, between Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and into south west China

Kenya has launched a US$13.8 billion flagship railway project linking the port city of Mombasa to the capital Nairobi and is eventually hoped to extend onwards to neighbouring Uganda.