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China, Norway train link may speed up freight to US
Russia News.Net
Friday 29th January, 2010 (IANS)
The northern Norwegian port of Narvik might serve as a new rail transport hub for freight en route from China and Russia to the US, a Norwegian cabinet member said Friday.
'Several countries are in serious talks, including China, Sweden, Russia, Finland and Norway. It is really exciting,' Transport Minister Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa told broadcaster NRK.
The distance between Narvik and Beijing is some 6,000 km. But moving freight by train to Narvik and reloading it onto ships would cut the transport to the eastern seaboard of the US by 14 days.
Current sea transports from China take 40 days, Kleppa said.
Narvik is ice-free due to the Gulf Stream that flows past Norway, and the port has for years been important for ore shipments from neighbouring Sweden.  Email this story to a friend
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wasobia
01-29-10, 09:22 AM |
China, Norway train link may speed up freight to US
Not economical viable project, and pose security risk and immigrantion risk.
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Anonymous
01-29-10, 10:44 AM |
It is viable because the milage is about the same
To send container from Asia to US eastcoast, It has to first unload in the US westcoast, then travel by train to the East. Now if the container take the train route first from China to Russia, then Norway, after that a shorter sea route from there to New York or Atlanta is absolutely possible. Immigration is not a problem for goods, security risk is not high if the container did not pass through too many countries. Train normally travel faster than ship.
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Syed Suhail Khalid
01-29-10, 11:57 PM |
Good move!
This is the right thing to do.Business is better than the business of wars.
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