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hub of the New Silk Road
RAIL CORRIDORS BETWEEN CHINA AND HAMBURG
SEA ROUTE BETWEEN CHINA AND HAMBURG
TASHKENT
SHENYANG PEKING
XINGANG ZHENGZHOU
VLADIVOSTOK HUNCHUN
DANDONG DALIAN
NOVOSIBIRSK
URUMQI
ULAANBAATAR
Ship, rail or plane – when freight has to be transport- ed between China and Europe, a choice often has to be made among these means of transport. Cost and time play an important part. The Airfreight is un- questionably the fastest means of transport; using this, moving import or export goods between Asia and Europe requires only a day or two. Yet the route is extremely costly. By contrast, ocean transport be- tween the two continents is very economical, but up to eight weeks can elapse before goods have
reached their destination. The third alternative, trans- porting goods by rail, closes the gap between ship and aircraft: trains from Asia to Europe require from two to three weeks, and the costs also lie some- where between air and sea. ■
For additional details on services with China:
By sea: www.hafen-hamburg.de/de/linerservices By rail: www.hafen-hamburg.de/de/intermodal
XI‘AN LANZHOU
CHONGQING
KUNMING DHAKA
LUANG
AY U T T H AYA
GWANGYANG
WUHAN SHANGHAI SOUZHOU
BUSAN
PORT KELANG SINGAPUR
CHANGSHA NANNING
YIWU
HONGKONG NAMTHA
NONG KHAI MAP TA PHUT
XIAMEN YANGTIAN
HARBIN CHANGCHUN
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