According to the leader of the Vietnam Railways Corporation (VNR), the train departs from Yen Vien station, the destination is Liege city (Belgium), then forwards the container by road to the place of delivery is the city of Rotterdam (Ha Noi). Lan).
Vessel carrying 23 containers of 40 feet with textiles, leather and footwear. From Vietnam, the train will go to Zhengzhou (China) and connect to the Asia-Europe train to reach the destination. Total journey time is about 25-27 days.
The train to Belgium departs from Yen Vien station. Image: Mr Duy.
This is the first container train by Ratraco Company in conjunction with shipping and forwarding businesses from other countries providing logistics service chains for customers from Vietnam to Europe.
Recently, Vietnam Railways has promoted container transportation to China and transit to Russia and Central Asian countries. Ratraco and its European partner started to plan and organize the transportation of 8 trains to Europe each month departing from Vietnam.
According to VNR leaders, with the advantage of connecting international railways, railways also have low costs and punctuality, so recently, freight transport by rail has grown strongly, compensating for the passenger transport business. decrease due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic.
According to VnExpress.net
