BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 18. DB Cargo Eurasia recognizes significant potential in the development of the Middle Corridor and is ready to actively promote it, Head of Business Development at DB Cargo Eurasia, Yingnan Yao, said in a statement at the session titled "Railway Services and Sea Shipping Freight Market Overview" at the Black Sea-Caspian Freight Forum 2024 in Baku, Trend reports.
"DB Cargo Eurasia is all in when it comes to the Middle Corridor, seeing a goldmine of potential and ready to roll up its sleeves to give it a good push. Our company intends to support initiatives for the development of this route by collaborating with partners who uphold high standards of quality and reliability," she said.
To note, the Middle Corridor links the container rail freight transportation networks of China and European Union countries via Central Asia, the Caucasus, Türkiye, and Eastern Europe, where multilateral multimodal transportation infrastructure connects ferry terminals of the Caspian and Black Seas with railway systems of China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Türkiye, Ukraine, and Poland. It facilitates increased cargo traffic from China to Türkiye, as well as to European countries and in the opposite direction.
The train route along this corridor hauls cargo from China to Europe in a brisk 20–25 days, and that's one of the biggest feathers in the cap of this transport corridor.