Tag: containers

FESCO launched a maritime container line from Vladivostok to Bangladesh

The maritime route includes through transportation of cargo from the Commercial Port of Vladivostok (part of FESCO) to Bangladesh, with transshipment in the Port of Shanghai (PRC), and back. The estimated transit time for import and export shipments...

Segezha Group sends its first container train to China from Arkhangelsk region

On May 21, 2021, for the first time in its history, the Arkhangelsk region-based Onega Sawmills (Segezha Group PJSC, a subsidiary of Sistema PJSFC) has sent a high-speed container train along the Onega—Grodekovo—Ganzhou Guojigang (China) route. Sixty-two forty-foot...

Onega Sawmills shipped the first container train loaded with sawn timber

Onega Sawmills dispatched a full container train loaded with finished products to China for the first time. The train consisting of 62 large-capacity containers will deliver 2,800 m³ of sawn timber to the Celestial Empire. The train departs from...

SCA to develop a new container port in Sweden’s Tunadal

Swedish forest products firm SCA has announced its plans to invest nearly $54.7m in Tunadal port between 2021 and 2024. The company stated that the funds will be used for developing a new container port and new cargo...

Onega Sawmills to increase shipments of finished products by faster container trains

Onega Sawmills will switch to shipments by faster container trains by the end of 2020. It is expected that the new logistics concept will accelerate the turnaround of specialized chip carriers and reduce transport costs per product, while...

World Forest Sector during the Pandemic: China

According to the figures provided by the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS), the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) in the manufacturing sector of China rose from a record low of 35.7 in February to 52 in March....

Global Trends Review, June 16-29, 2014: New acquisitions and projects in the North American pellet industry; China blocks container shipping alliance

RWE Innogy is selling the largest operating US pellet factory, Georgia Biomass in Texas, as Holzkurier reported. The company is going to dispose of biomass assets as non-core business. The mill was launched in May 2011 and has...