Nippon Express, one of the top five global logistics services providers, plans to double its China-Europe container trains to 5,000 a year

Nippon Express, one of the top five global logistics services providers, plans to double its China-Europe container trains to 5,000 a year, reports RailFreight.com. Due to Covid restrictions, air freight is now 10 times the cost of rail. Before Covid, it was four times as expensive. With the rail gauge break in Belarus struggling to cope with the surge in traffic, Ukraine hopes to win more and more Chinese freight destined for Central Europe and the Balkans. At Kazakhstan’s main rail crossing point, Dostyk, expansion is underway to handle 1 million containers a year.