The newest way to send your freight from China to Europe is not through ship , neither through Plane….. it is through train which involves spending 15 days and that doesn’t have a buffet car in sight.
On 3 January in Yiwu in eastern China, a bright orange locomotive pulling 44 containers cargo of small commodities including household items, clothes, fabrics, bags, and suitcases set off on a 7,500-mile (12,000km) journey to western Europe and arrived in London on 20th jan.
Yiwu Timex Industrial Investments, which is running this service with China’s state-run railways, says prices are half that of air cargo and cut two weeks off the journey time by sea. This London freight service makes London the 15th European city to have a direct rail link with China after the 2013 unveiling of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative by Chinese premier Xi Jinping.
Purely on economic basis , direct rail link between Beijing and Western Europe enables manufacturers to explore new means to lower transport costs. canny negotiators can leverage the new market entrant to lower prices of their established pathways by boat or plane.China is moving very fast on this initiative of ONE BELT ONE ROAD. Many analysts believe that an expanded Chinese economic role within central Asia will also enhance its political influence over an increasingly important global region
Cheaper than air faster than sea
