Train brings goods overland to Europe from China

A Schnker train

Right on schedule, the first consignment of IT products to travel more than 10,000 km by rail from southern China to Germany was delivered to Hamburg by DB Schenker. This single journey saved a total of 2,200 tons of greenhouse gases in comparison to air freighting.

(This is, of course, a bullshit, PR comparison. To do it properly you would have to work out how much of the cargo would have gone by ship. That is the only way to get an accurate calculation.)

Fujitsu Siemens Computers has started using the Trans-Eurasian Rail Bridge as an alternative to air freighting, in order to fulfil fast-track delivery of urgent orders. (Mark you, anyone thinking that 20 plus days is fast-track delivery is playing in the wrong league. And, incidentally, that may not be the right train. Schenker PR have locked the illustrations in behind a password in case some crazed journalist wants to use one.)

Fujitsu Siemens Computers plans to contract with DB Schenker to start regular train supplies, having established the 10 000-plus kilometre rail route

The train started from Xiangtang in southern China and, on its way to Hamburg, crossed five country borders.

The monitors are destined for the FSC European distribution centre in Worms, Germany, and the chassis assemblies for the Fujitsu Siemens Computers' factory in Augsburg, Germany, where PCs and servers are built. Around 60% of Fujitsu Siemens Computers' manufacturing takes place in Germany.
Source: IT Web

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