Since the beginning of 2025, FESCO Transportation Group has transported over 23,000 TEUs through the Dostyk and Altynkol border crossings, double the volume for the same period last year. Rail freight from China to Russia via Kazakhstan is carried out jointly with Chinese platform and agency companies, with cargo dispatched from cities such as Xi’an, Chongqing, Hefei, Tongshan, Zengcheng, Guangzhou, and Chengdu.
A.P. Moller – Maersk, an integrated logistics company, and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL), a Chinese energy technology company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly advance the decarbonization of global supply chains and strengthen CATL’s global logistics. The signing ceremony took place on October 9 in Hong Kong with the participation of executives from both companies, including Morton Bo Christiansen from Maersk and Akin Li from CATL, as well as Maersk Chairman Robert Maersk Ugla and CATL CEO Libin Tan.
Construction has begun on a modern intermodal terminal at the Port of Gdynia’s logistics center, costing 75 million zlotys (approximately $20 million), with $35 million financed by the European Union. The project includes the construction of 2.73 kilometers of railway tracks, 30,000 square meters of shunting yards, and a permanent cargo handling ramp.
On October 8, a working meeting between the Kazakhstan Transport Workers’ Union “Kazlogistics” and representatives of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) was held in Astana. The main topic of discussion was the development of rail transit through Kazakhstan and the elimination of systemic constraints hindering freight traffic growth.
The agreement begins in December 2026 and runs for eight years, with an option for extension. VR Sverige has been awarded the upcoming operating contract for Mälartåg, covering services in the greater Stockholm-Mälaren region.
CargoBeamer, a leading European rail freight company, has expanded its network by launching a new intermodal route between Venlo (Netherlands) and Oradea (Romania). Beginning in late September 2025, this route will operate six round trips per week, with a travel time of approximately 60 hours. Trains depart daily from the Cabooter terminal in Venlo from Sunday to Friday and from the intermodal terminal in Oradea from Friday to Wednesday. The service accommodates both overhead and non-overhead semi-trailers, refrigerated trucks, tankers, ADR cargo, containers, and swap bodies.
As part of the process, LDz ritošā sastāva serviss and LDz Loģistika have been merged into LDZ CARGO.
Track laying work has begun on the Rail Baltica section near Jonava in Lithuania—a crucial stage in the construction of the European gauge (1435 mm). Completion of the 8.8 km of track between the towns of Shvejci and Žeimiai is scheduled for the end of the year. LTG Infra has already purchased 86,200 tons of ballast, 29,500 reinforced concrete sleepers, and 42 km of rails for the project, which will be laid using modern technologies.
During Kazakhstan’s Transport Week in Almaty, the heads of Georgian and Azerbaijani railways signed a memorandum on the launch of regular container train services linking ports on the Black and Caspian Seas. The new Batumi–Poti–Tbilisi–Absheron–Sumgait–Alat route will connect the two countries’ key sea and dry ports, including the Tbilisi Multimodal Terminal, the first phase of which was commissioned in June 2025.
According to the Association of International Freight Forwarders of Ukraine, Ukrainian seaports handled 134,191 TEUs in the first eight months of 2025 (January–August), a 3.3% increase over the entire 2024 annual figure and the best result since the start of the full-scale war.
