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Jun 15 2022

CMA CGM starts blocktrain service from growing hub Trieste

CMA CGM Group started a new weekly intermodal service from Trieste to Central and Eastern Europe this week with its subsidiary CEVA Logistics. The first train departed on 4 June from the terminal HHLA PLT Italy.

CMA CGM was already offering maritime services to the Italian port, linking with Ambarli, Gemlik and Gebze in Turkey as well as with Malta. The blocktrain offer allows an overland connection further into Europe. With this, the company is acknowledging the growing importance of the Adriatic port as a gateway to this part of Europe.

 

A new gateway

CMA CGM is not the first company to set up such a service. The Adriatic region is developing dynamically. This is partly due to the fact that new transport routes have been formed since the war broke out in Ukraine. The closure of the Black Sea, as well as the hesitance of shippers to transit through Russia has shifted interests towards alternative, sea-rail transport routes. Read more

 

Source: RAILFREIGHT.COM