With freight trains backing up at the Belarus-Poland border, China plans to start in June a second container route through Ukraine to Europe,

With freight trains backing up at the Belarus-Poland border, China plans to start in June a second container route through Ukraine to Europe, CTS reports, citing Rakhmetolla Kudaibergenov, secretary general of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route. Trains coming from the former Soviet Union must stop at the western borders of Belarus or Ukraine to switch to European gauge tracks. Last week, a weekly China-to-Hungary freight train started service, also passing through Ukraine. The Trans-Caspian official said: “The initiative to create a new logistics product belongs to the Chinese side due to the shortage of cargo transportation capacities to Europe through Belarus.”