FESCO Transportation Group expands the network of its regular rail services from China and together with SWIFT, a Chinese transportation company launches FESCO Mongolian Shuttle - a container train destined from Xiamen to Moscow.
The first train carrying 82 TEU was dispatched from province Fujian to station Kupavna of the Moscow Railway on August 25th. Time in transit shall be 14 days. The route of this service runs via border stations Erlian/Zamyn-Uud/Naushki. With increase of the rhythm of traffic it is expected to use FESCO Mongolian Shuttle to make two regular dispatches per month, in the future – on a weekly basis.
The cargo base for the service is formed by export goods from province Fujian and by products that are produced in and are arriving from other regions to Shanghai, Ningbo, Guangzhou. These are primarily consumer goods, products of the textile industry, shoes.
FESCO launched its first continental service from China to Russia in late 2016 on route Tianjin-Moscow, a transit service from China to Germany passing through the territory of Mongolia as well started to operate in early August 2017.