Finland to India rail freight
Posted: 09 Jul 2021, 05:59
A train from Finland and the excitement about rail freight
A special train is snaking its way from Finland to India. From Helsinki to Mumbai (at the Nhava Sheva port) in just about 22-25 days. This freight train is carrying paper products for a Swedish company, but it is not so much what it is carrying that is important as the fact that this journey is being made at all. This is no ordinary train ride. This journey opens a historic new route for transporting goods via rail between Europe and India via Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran. This route not only reduces the freight transport distance between Russia and India from around 40 days to approximately two weeks, but also provides an alternative to the traditional sea route through the Suez Canal...