Trade with China has always been an important element of the Russian economy, both macro and micro. If minerals and raw materials are the state level, then all kinds of consumer goods and nice little things are very human, earthy. Cargoes came to us most often by sea, in containers, but the “Kingdom of Denmark” has been restless since 2021: officially because of the very “covid”, but in reality because of the complicated relations between China and the United States, the famous container crisis arose, which effectively brought all logistics in the world to a standstill. Why is there logistics, production all over the planet has stopped!
The current year has only added fuel to the fire: from now on, all “decent people” are trying to put a spoke in the wheels of any transport company that intends to bring at least something more expensive than air to Russia. Restriction on insurance of ships, non-admission of ships to ports, etc. The sea is becoming aggressive towards the “tricolor” – a calmer, but cheap means of transport is needed. For all the time of its existence, mankind has come up with only one similar – the railway.
Delivering goods by rail is cheap, relatively fast and communication routes work stably and without delay. And now we finally have one from the Middle Kingdom: two tracks, designed for 7 trains of 70 cars each per day. In addition, the track, although one, is universal: both for the Russian wheelset and for the Chinese one.