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Record: DB transports over 40,000 containers between China and Germany in 2016
Berlin, 30.12.2016 - 2016 was a record year for Deutsche Bahn in terms of container transports by rail between Germany and China. "With over 40,000 containers, we as DB have moved the largest volume of goods to date over the world's longest rail route. This is a good foundation for increasing the number of containers to ... around 100,000 by 2020, which is three times as many as in 2014," says Ronald Pofalla, Member of the Deutsche Bahn Management Board responsible for Economic, Legal and Regulatory Affairs. The good result had already been announced at the end of September, when the transport volume of 35,000 for 2015 as a whole had already been exceeded.
The journeys over the 10,000 to 12,000 kilometer routes generally take between twelve and 16 days, including several loading operations of the containers onto other gauges. This means that the services offered by DB together with the railroads in Poland, Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China are completed in half the time it takes to transport goods by ship. In particular, customers with time-sensitive goods such as promotional goods for the clothing industry and capital-intensive goods such as automotive parts and electronics are among those placing orders. For example, DB and its partner railroads have been supplying the car plant in Shenyang with vehicle parts from Leipzig and Regensburg on behalf of the BMW Group since 2011.
The aim of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China Railway (CR), which Ronald Pofalla signed in Beijing in March 2016, is to intensify transportation between China and Germany. 2016 saw further projects for DB with and in China. For example, DB CEO Dr. Rüdiger Grube signed another MoU for a project in Dalian during the Chancellor's trip to China in June. Experts from DB Engineering & Consulting are currently the first foreigners to work in the Chinese mass transit market. As part of a consortium, the engineers are providing consultancy services for the operation of local transport lines in Dalian, a city with a population of 6 million.
There are also agreements to cooperate with the rail vehicle construction group CRRC (China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation), to support the development and optimization of a maintenance system for high-speed multiple units and to cooperate in the development of infrastructure projects in third countries (Silk Road Initiative "One Belt - One Road"). red
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