One year from now, East-West is to open with an initial capacity of 300,000 containers.

One year from now, East-West is to open with an initial capacity of 300,000 containers. The terminal is located 25 km south of Chop, Zakarpattia, in Fényeslitke, Hungary, a city where Soviet broad gauge tracks end at a terminus parallel to European narrow-gauge tracks. In coming years, Hungary plans to build a rail bypass around Budapest, a construction project that will allow East-West to work at full capacity. The chairman of East-West is Ruslan Rakhimkulov, a member of one of Russia’s wealthiest families. This is expected to overcome Russian Railways’ traditional reluctance to send Chinese container trains across Ukraine.