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New China-Europe road service meets forwarder skepticism

November 30, 2018

Via: JOC

The viability of shipping cargo by truck from China to Europe has been greeted with extreme skepticism by forwarders following news that CEVA Logistics and some partners were planning to launch a road service from Jan. 1, 2019.

A truck left Khorgos on the China-Kazakhstan border on Nov. 13 in a pilot project conducted under the TIR initiative (Transports Internationaux Routiers), a global system that allows road transport operators to only declare their data once when moving goods across multiple borders. The truck took just 13 days to reach Poland.

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