The Finnish Nurminen Logistics has established a new route linking the two countries via the Middle Corridor.

A feeder service carries containers to Hamburg, transhipped onto a train heading to Constanța. In Romania, the shipment again boards a vessel for carriage to Batumi. Another train takes the boxes over Georgia and Azerbaijan to the latter's Port of Baku, from which the service's third ship leaves for the Kazakh Aktau.

Nurminen Logistics' latest arrangement, set up in co-op with Kazakhstan's state railway company, runs three times per week from Europe to Central Asia as of December 2022. The transit time is four weeks.

Meanwhile, the company offers another service to Kazakhstan, involving a sea link to Latvia and then by rail through Russia (the shipment must exclude sanctioned goods). This link's transit time is one week shorter. Nurminen Logistics' own containers are used on this route.

Photo: Nurminen Logistics