Premiere: Mukran Port dispatched first train from China

Sassnitz-Mukran, November 19, 2019 - The first direct freight train connection between China and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania arrived at Mukran Port on Tuesday 12th November. The train going east started its journey with 48 Containers. The 640m long freight train going west started its 10.000 km long trip from Xi´an in China via Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus to Baltijsk in Kaliningrad loaded with 41 Containers, where they were loaded onto a short sea carrier. Arriving at Mukran Port the team of Mukran Port Terminals GmbH & Co. KG handled the cargo and lifted the containers back onto a train.This new route of the “Silk Road Initiative” was ceremonially inaugurated by all parties and persons involved. 
“With this first train from Xi´an, Mukran Port will be perceived more strongly as an ideal European logistics location/base. I am firmly convinced that many more trains from the Middle Kingdom will follow – thanks, too, to our business partners in Kaliningrad.”, said Harm Sievers, managing director of Mukran Port, about the arrival of the pilot train.