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Russian Railways has launched a new regular express container service, the Trans-Siberian Railway In Seven Days, in cooperation with OJSC TransContainer, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, and the Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company, part of the Global Ports Group.
At the moment, the service links the Nakhodka - Vostochnaya station on Far Eastern Railways with the Moscow – Tovarnaya - Paveletskaya station on Moscow Railways.
The first train with a length of 71 conventional wagons was loaded at the Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company's terminal and shipped from Nakhodka - Vostochnaya on May 1, 2013 to the Moscow – Tovarnaya - Paveletskaya station, where it arrived on May 8.
The express container train will depart from Nakhodka twice a week, on Wednesdays and Fridays. It takes just 7 days to reach Moscow and travels non-stop, bypassing the sorting stations en route, thus greatly improving container delivery times from the Far East to Moscow.
The current fast container service takes 11-14 days to reach Moscow, while shipping containers on the Trans-Siberian takes up to 20 days under normal conditions.
