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<div>Transport providers are expanding into new rail freight markets in Central Asia as they seek to improve the value proposition of the middle corridor between China and Europe that is heavily undermined by higher costs and lengthy transit times.</div> <div> “The middle corridor was a panic move by customers moving away from Russia,” Thomas Kowitzki, head of China rail and multimodal Europe at DHL Global Forwarding, told the European Silk Road Summit in Duisburg, Germany, Thursday. </div> <div> “The middle corridor is still worth considering, but we are seeing Central Asian countries becoming more attractive, rather than it just replacing...

A broad shift in China-Europe rail from the northern route through Russia to the middle corridor transiting Central Asia is unlocking new and largely untapped containerized markets for service providers. 

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