Russia to send “Agroexpress” with rapeseed oil from Barnaul to China – Economy and business
BEIJING, December 25. / Corr. TASS Nikolay Selishchev /. The Russian producer of rapeseed oil will send an accelerated refrigerated container train (Agroexpress) with rapeseed oil to the PRC, which indicates a satisfied increase in the supply of agricultural products from Russia to China. The head of the Xingtai Lanli food distributor Guo Xiaowei told TASS about this on Saturday.
“A train with 82 twenty-foot containers will leave Barnaul on December 26 and will arrive in the Chinese city of Chongqing (south-west of the country) in about 12 days,” he said. As Guo Xiaowei specified, the oil will go through the train to the border city of the People’s Republic of China, Manchuria.
“We will continue to expand the range. Grown in the Russian Federation.”
According to Guo Xiaowei, his company will try to speed up deliveries “so that the Chinese consumer can receive goods made in Russia as soon as possible.” “I hope the pandemic will end soon and trade relations between China and the Russian Federation will be carried out even more smoothly and successfully,” he said.
Earlier, thanks to Agroexpress, Russia organized mass deliveries to China of other products, including wheat flour and sunflower oil.
In 2019, the Russian Export Center, RZD Logistics, RZD Service and FVK Sever agreed to work together to develop the export of Russian agricultural products to China with accelerated refrigerated container trains (Agroexpress), and also worked out the main land routes. deliveries from terminal and warehouse complexes: from the Selyatino station (Moscow region) and from the Vorsino station (Kaluga region). It is assumed that the export of finished food products of the Russian Federation directly to the inner regions of China, and not by the traditional route by sea, will significantly reduce the transportation time and significantly reduce the total costs of Russian producers, open new markets in the PRC, and gain a significant competitive advantage over European and American companies. operating through Chinese seaports.