{"id":43184,"date":"2017-11-16T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T11:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newparadigm.schillerinstitute.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/16\/schienenfrachtroute-zwischen-china-und-finnland-eroffnet\/"},"modified":"2019-01-03T03:24:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T02:24:53","slug":"schienenfrachtroute-zwischen-china-und-finnland-eroffnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/blog\/2017\/11\/16\/schienenfrachtroute-zwischen-china-und-finnland-eroffnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland-China Rail Freight Route Opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Nov. 13 &#8211; With more than 40 containers, a cargo train bound for Xi&#8217;an, China departed Kouvola in southeastern Finland, on Nov. 10. It will take 17 days to run 9,000 km distance across the Eurasian continent, passing through Russia and Kazakhstan among other countries, before reaching its final destination in northwest China.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Goods packed in the containers are all made in Finland, ranging from machinery, timber, workwear, and ship components, according to Jari Gronlund, chief operation officer of Unytrade company. Founded just this past summer, Unytrade especially serves the newly-opened route, said Gronlund, who believes the only railway route linking the Nordic countries and China will open a new channel to bring more Nordic products to nations along the route.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Olli-Pekka Hilmola, logistics professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology, told Finnish national broadcaster Yle\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">that a regular train connection from Kouvola to China would be important to the Finnish economy. Li Zhao, Assistant of the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">General Manager of Xi&#8217;an International Inland Port Investment &amp; Development Group, explained that goods will be further\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">transported to various markets in China from the terminus in Xi&#8217;an.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As planned, a total of five trains will run between Kouvola and Xi&#8217;an by the end of this year. At the same time, a train\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">would depart from Xi&#8217;an to Kouvola every week. Li said the trips may start to increase if trade goes smoothly; hopefully a train\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">of goods would be sent every day in the near future.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 13 &#8211; With more than 40 containers, a cargo train bound for Xi&#8217;an, China departed Kouvola in southeastern Finland, on Nov. 10. It will take 17 days to run 9,000 km distance across the Eurasian continent, passing through Russia and Kazakhstan among other countries, before reaching its final destination in northwest China. Goods packed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,446],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-43184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-updates-bri","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51030,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43184\/revisions\/51030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}