As a dedicated service or as part of a multi-modal solution, rail offers faster time-to-market than the ocean at a substantially lower cost than air freight.

Intercontinental Rail

Product Overview

Wherever your cargo is heading, you can rely on our tailored rail solutions and our connections with significant rail operators to make sure your goods arrive on time, on time, every time. Our team of experts handles all aspects of the documentation ensuring flawless execution on both ends and monitoring the shipments via GPS tracker en route.

The intercontinental rail portfolio consists of 3 main products: Block Train, Single Container FCL and LCL between China and Europe, and CIS.

Block Train

The block train product (full train dedicated to one customer) is a tailor-made solution, reviewing the optimal and preferred routes from China to Europe and vice versa. The min requirement is 41 containers and max—of 50 containers per train.

Your key benefits are:

  • Reliability and flexibility
    Fixed transit time
    Takes customers’ preferred route

Single rail container FCL

The single rail container movement door-to-door products. Depending on the origin, we have several weekly departures and options available from China to Europe and vice versa.

Your key benefits are:

  • Several weekly departures
  • Door-to-door solution
  • Cross-border trucking from South East Asia to Europe is available

 

Rail LCL

The rail LCL product from China to Europe including door-to-door solutions using Poland as hub for final leg distribution to EU countries.

Your key benefits:

  • EXW & FOB services
  • Door delivery to majority of EU countries

Key benefits of intercontinental rail solutions

Addressing the challenges of online shopping, changing buying behaviors, and shorter product lifestyles, Intercontinental Rail offers a competitive end-to-end solution combining reliability, sustainability, and speed to market.

Cost of bringing goods to market

The significantly lower costs than airfreight combined with faster lead times reduce the working capital, save interest and reduce the inventories.

Sustainable and ecofriendly solution

Railway environment-friendly transport mode reduces the Co2 emission significantly versus airfreight.

Change in end-customer buying behavior

Complimentary to Ocean products including usage of CS Logistics containers giving full flexibility to the customers and connecting with our strong intermodal network.

Timeliness and reliability

Rail has excellent reliability arriving in-time, on time and no rolling policy.

The need for speed and time to market

Service takes 16-18 days from China’s major rail gateways to Europe reducing the transit time by 10-15 days with multiple departures a week.

Flexibility

Meet tight deadlines, save on extra costs, and gain more flexibility to manage your supply chain.