OREANDA-NEWS. June 10, 2013. In general, the train sets included 113 flat wagons in total, which carried 120 tank containers and 8 40-foot containers.

The trains were loaded at railway terminals of Abaclia, Cahul, Taraclia and Giurgiulesti. The trains were bound for railway terminal Stepyanka, Belarusian Rail Way and for railway terminal Dnepropetrovsk-Liski, Ukrainian Rail Way. The biggest number of ZUBR trains was departed from Moldova in February and April, 4 each. In February the trains carried 72 tank containers, in April they transported 74 tank containers and 3 40-foot containers.

The protocol on Rail Ways of Moldova’s joining the ZUBR project was signed in Kyiv in November, 2012, InfoMarket reported earlier. The route of the ZUBR container train runs through Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Latvia, and Estonia. The transportation of cargo by ZUBR is paid for at special affordable tariffs, which are much lower than those established for auto transportation. The train goes by a special fast schedule which allows reducing the customs clearance time and delivering cargo to a destination point rapidly.

According to Rail Ways of Moldova, the ZUBR project helped to redirect and attract container cargo transited from China to Ukraine through Giurgiulesti port and the territory of Moldova. An intermodal logistic corridor between the Black and the Baltic Seas to transport cargo by sea and rail ways was officially opened in Moldova in early April, 2013.

Moldova’s inclusion in the route of this train has become possible thanks to the visit of Vladimir Filat to Turkey in November, 2012 during which Turkish carriers showed their interest to transportation of cargoes through such a corridor as well as thanks to efficient partnership between Rail Ways of Moldova, a state enterprise, and Danube Logistics, a foreign investor and the administrator of Giurgiulesti Port. An amount of containers transported through the new platform is expected to grow 3.5 times from 1160 in 2012 to 4000 approximately in 2013.