The growth was driven by redirection of cargo flows from seaborne transport to railways via Far East and Kazakhstan
Saint-Petersburg customs reports a considerable increase in railway delivery of Chinese cargoes to Saint-Petersburg. In 2022, the number of containers with Chinese goods handled by
Shushary customs of Saint-Petersburg surged 12 times, year-on-year. According to the customer, it registered 15,300 containers delivered by railways in the 11-month period.
A total of 260 thousand tonnes of cargo has been delivered from China year-to-date.
The growth was driven by the redirection of Chinese cargo flows from seaborne transport to railways via the checkpoints of the Far East and via Kazakhstan.
At the meeting held on 16 November 2022, RF Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev said that loading of port terminals in the Far East was still high and proposing to consider thepossibility ofincreasing container transport rates foreastbound shipping in2023 while simultaneously reducing therates forshipments totheports inthenorthwest.
Far East ports need unloading
Demand for redirection of container flows from Russia’s North-West to the Far East estimated at 600 thousand TEU per year
