Eurasian Railway Gateway Terminal To Link Belarus To China

The Eurasian Railway Gateway terminal, connecting the Belarusian Great Stone Industrial Park in Minsk to China’s Belt & Road Initiative, is being prepared and should begin initial operations in mid-2026, according to Belarus Segodnya, the official media.

The newspaper said, “The Eurasian Railway Gateway bi-modal container terminal is a key logistics project of the Great Stone Park and is crucial for Belarus. It is due to form trains for shipping Belarusian products by China’s Silk Road.”

The terminal will provide services such as container handling, warehousing, storage, and loading. It will also provide transfers between the terminal and clients, container repairs, and customs clearance of imported and exported cargo. The facility’s planned capacity is to handle up to 180,000 standard containers per year, with the potential to increase this to 500,000.

The estimated investment for the project exceeds US$50 million.

The first stage of the terminal project, which is due to be finalized by the middle of next year, will allow accumulating, storing, and processing cargo. The next stage envisages construction of warehouses for cargo handling operations.

Great Stone’s Deputy General Director Kirill Koroteyev said, “We are considering sources of funding, including third-party investors. Once the processes are complete, logistics, warehouse, and transshipment facilities will be built near the railway. The second stage is scheduled for 2027. According to tentative estimates, it will be finalized in 2028.”

Belarus is just one country (Russia) distant from China, or two if goods transit via Kazakhstan.