To the side victim of the Russian invasion in Ukraineτον “Silk Railway”, Today’s article in the French financial newspaper Les Échos reports that China will not like a prolonged blockade of this Eurasian axis. Mainly after the signing of an agreement between Beijing and Kiev in July 2021, for the development of a new alternative freight service between Xian in China and Kiev in Ukraine, with the aim of better serving Southern Europe and with a European border entry point between Ukraine and Hungary.
Her wish is underlined Of Hungary to create railway “node”such as that of Małaszewicze in Poland, which is now saturated and the readiness of Asian and European investors to commit, but also the study of the Upply freight platform study for the uncertainty that now prevails in the “southern corridor”, rail freight on Ukrainian territory “.
The same newspaper points out the suspension of maritime traffic in Ukraine, with shipowners interrupting their services in local ports, mainly in Odessa. It is noted that MSC, the world’s leading ship owner, “no longer accepts new bookings from or to Ukraine with immediate effect” and is investigating a solution for transit shipments to Black Sea and Mediterranean ports, with a company representative pointing out ” additional challenges and pressures on supply chains “.
It is emphasized that the same applies to the CMA CGM, which suspended all stops in this area, redirecting cargo to its ships in the ports of Constanta (Romania), Tripoli (Lebanon) and Piraeus.
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