The French CMA CGM through its subsidiary Ceva and the Dane Maersk are affected.
Since April, the international transport giants have been taking a little-used route to import “made in China” products into Europe: a route called the “
middle corridor
”, where the journey is mainly by train, but which includes some boat crossings.
"Containers arrive from China by rail to the port of Aktau, Kazakhstan
," Maersk said in a statement.
There they are loaded onto a barge to cross the Caspian Sea to Baku, Azerbaijan.
Then they go by train to Poti, Georgia, where they cross the Black Sea by boat to Constanta, Romania.
Last step, they take the train, most often to Duisburg, Germany.
A hell of a journey, which takes thirty days compared to only twenty for the traditional rail route, further north.
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