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The first export train of 30 wagons loaded with oats departed for India from Formachevo station in Chelyabinsk, in the Urals region of Russia, Acting Head of Chelyabinsk Customs Andrey Gursky, has said. The train departed on March 18. The 830-tonne cargo was packed using the infrastructure of the Yuzhnouralsky transport and logistics complex.
Since the beginning of 2024, Chelyabinsk customs officers have dispatched ten container trains for export to China, Vietnam, Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and India, including both agricultural products and electrical insulators from the region.
Russian Railways began dispatching container trains via the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) from the RZD South Ural Railway’s Chelyabinsk-Gruzovaya station in March 2023. Since summer of last year, trains have been dispatched from Formachevo station, located near the Yuzhnouralsky Transport and Logistics Complex, whose infrastructure is used for the transshipment of containers from truck to rail.
Russia’s FESCO transport group also provides a railway container service on the Vladivostok-Chelyabinsk (Formachevo) route, again making use of the Yuzhnouralsky TLC infrastructure.
The INSTC is a multimodal route for transporting passengers and cargo, with a total length of 7,200 km from St. Petersburg to the port of Mumbai. A significant part of it passes through Russian railways infrastructure, which, depending on the route, accounts for 33-53% of the total length of the land corridor. The main goal of the development of the INSTC is to serve Russia’s foreign trade with the countries of Transcaucasia, the Caspian region, South Asia, and the Persian Gulf. This most recent shipment is the first time grain has been sent from Russia to India using this route. The container contents were secured remotely by Chelyabinsk customs using blockchain technologies shared with Indian customs.
