Increasing the international freight traffic between China and Europe will be among the priorities of the Belarusian Railways for 2017. The Belarusian Railways outlined areas of international cooperation for 2017. The company will pay attention to hauls between China and Belarus and cooperation with residents of the China-Belarus Industrial Park Great Stone in the transport and logistics sector, and the organization of the international traffic, BelTA informs.
The Belarusian Railways will also be developing cooperation with Chinese provinces in shipping by high-speed container trains. A special focus will be on cooperation with the railways of Russia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, and Estonia. The goal is to attract additional freight traffic, further develop passenger transport, follow a coordinated and competitive tariff policy, apply electronic legal traffic documents in international transport, coordinate joint action aimed at the development of near-border railway infrastructure.
The plans also include the completion of the project to electrify the railways on the route Molodechno-state border-Naujoji Vilnia and the organization of passenger transport between Minsk and Vilnius with the use of modern electric trains. The Belarusian Railways offices in Russia, Kazakhstan and Poland will cooperate with railways, freight owners, rolling stock operators, forwarders and shipping agents to a view to attract additional traffic.
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