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The Far Eastern Railway open the "Freight Express" service, which allows it to deliver timber to China in a shorter time, bypassing the processing at sorting stations.

Contracts for dispatching railway carriage as part of freight express from railway stations Postyshevo, Bohlen and Amgun have already concluded logging companies such Transles, Asia Les, Amur, Rimbunan Hijia and Delta Ltd.

In 2018 more than 4 thousand railway carriage were sent by 75 the “Freight Express” trains.

In 2019 the line is ready to offer the shipment of loaded wagons as part of the Freight Express to new destinations.

At present, a technology has been developed for the formation and departure of trains from the Hurmuli railway station to an appointment at the Grodekovo station, and also from the Grodekovo railway station to an appointment to Novochuguevka station.

At the end of 2018, the transfer of wagons with timber cargoes to the land border crossing Grodekovo (Primorsky Region) - Suifenhe (China) accounted for 63% of the total volume transmitted through the crossing. The average daily transfer amounted to 263 wagons with timber cargo, the rest of the transfer falls on coal (20%) and ore (13%).

The Far Eastern Railway passes through the territory of six constituent entities of the Russian Federation: the Primorsky and Khabarovsk Regions, the Amur and Sakhalin Regions, the Jewish Autonomous Region, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

At the end of last year, at a meeting with beekeepers of Primorye, Governor Oleg Kozhemyako spoke about banning linden cutting and export of roundwood. However, he made a reservation that it is impossible to completely prohibit deforestation, since "thousands of people are involved in the production of wood, and people need to feed their families." In the harvesting and processing of forest in Primorye, about 19 thousand inhabitants of the region are employed. The forest industry ranks fourth in terms of taxes in Primorye after transport, industry and food production.

News source: www.vestiprim.ru