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The Silk Railway: freight train from China pulls up in Madrid

Global Trade Management

En route it passed through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and France before arriving at the Abroñigal freight terminal in Madrid. It consisted of 30 containers carrying 1,400 tonnes of cargo – mostly toys, stationery and other items for sale over Christmas across Europe.

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Interoceanic Passages

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This is due in part to the chokepoints they cause in the flow of global freight as well as the fact that they give people access to resources and commercial activity more effectively. It is standard procedure to unload some Mediterranean-bound ships and use the Sumed pipeline to move the excess cargo. meters in 2008 as opposed to 22.5

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Beijing-Hamburg freight service completes maiden journey

Global Trade Management

Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking. By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. Beijing-Hamburg freight service completes maiden journey. The size of global trade has nearly doubled since 1990.