Militzer & Münch offers new rail groupage container service from China to Germany

Militzer & Münch is expanding its service portfolio: Since early August the international transport logistics provider carries groupage container on the railway from Yiwu, China, to Duisburg, Germany, which is more than 11,000 kilometres away.
With this new product, the company is currently the only logistics provider from Yiwu to cover the need for groupage-rail services of the economically prosperous Delta Shanghai, Ningbo and Yiwu in eastern China. Shanghai is one of the most important business locations in the People’s Republic, Ningbo and Yiwu are major commercial centers.
Militzer & Münch offers an additional transport option between China and Europe to customers from the high-tech, textiles, automotive, mechanical engineering and fast moving consumer goods and other segments. “Groupage container rail traffic is a promising and flexible alternative to air and ocean freight, which is cheaper than the transportation by air and requires only half as much time as the transport by sea. The CO2 balance is excellent,” says Gunnar Haid, Head of Global Seafreight, M&M air sea cargo GmbH.
In the port city of Ningbo, the 40-foot containers are stowed, transported from there by truck over about 200 kilometers to Yiwu and loaded onto the railway. The journey takes about 14 to 16 days, leading from Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland to Duisburg. There, the goods are unloaded and prepared for further transport within Europe.
Militzer & Münch expert team in Dusseldorf and China coordinate the transports. Both in China and in Germany the transport logistics provider covers the entire transport service “Door-to-Door” and takes over the customs clearance for its customers.
Militzer & Münch is offering one departure per week. “We see more potential for groupage containers in this growing market,” says Michael Spitzlei, Regional Manager North Rhine-Westphalia, M&M air sea cargo GmbH. “Customers change their supply chains, time plays an important role. It makes sense to complete the full container rail transports by our new service, which we also offer on the China – Europe – China route.”
The M&M Militzer & Münch group, headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, employs a staff of about 2,000 at 100 locations in over 25 countries, complemented by strategic partnerships in many more countries. Militzer & Münch offers worldwide air and sea freight services as well as road and rail transports and project logistics along the East-West corridor in Eurasia and North Africa. The group operates with a solid network of branch offices in Eastern Europe, the CIS, the Middle East and the Far East as well as in the Maghreb countries.
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