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The Kuibyshev Railway (a subsidiary of Russian Railways (RZD) has dispatched the first export train with wheat to Vietnam—the cargo departed from the Deng Xiaoping Logistics Complex in Tatarstan.
The train, comprising 76 containers with 2,000 tons of wheat, left the “One Belt, One Road” terminal. It will travel along the Kuibyshev Railway to Mys Churkin station (Far Eastern Railway), from where the containers will be delivered to Vietnam by sea. In the future, there are plans to increase export shipments through the terminal specifically to Vietnam; in addition to grain, other types of cargo are also expected to be shipped.
The grain for this shipment was consolidated at the Alabuga Grain Terminal—a specialized facility designed for regular, year‑round block‑train shipments of grain cargoes from across the Volga region. Its throughput capacity reaches 8 million tons per year. The terminal accepts grain delivered both by road and rail, carries out the necessary processing, forms export consignments, and packs the products into specialized containers. The supply geography covers the countries of Central Asia, the Middle East, and China; now, ASEAN member states have been added to this list.
The Alabuga Terminal is closely linked to the “One Belt, One Road” terminal, which is part of the Deng Xiaoping Logistics Complex. The active construction phase of the complex began in 2023, and the first stage was commissioned, and the first container trains were launched in October 2024. The complex operates on a counter‑flow principle: grain cargoes are shipped for export in specialized containers, while in the opposite direction, imported goods are transported, including engineering products, components, spare parts, and consumer goods.
To integrate the terminal into the general railway network, the Alabuga Special Economic Zone built about 16 km of new railway tracks, while RZD ensured their connection to the public‑use tracks—to Krugloe Pole and Nikashnovka stations. This made it possible to reliably link the terminal to the mainline network and organize regular container shipments.
The Kuibyshev Railway, which handled the dispatch of the train, serves a number of Russian regions—Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Mordovia, as well as the Ryazan, Penza, Tambov, Ulyanovsk, Samara, Orenburg, and Chelyabinsk regions.
