Improvement of Service in the Supply Chains of Goods in the Transport Communication “Europe–Russia” Using the Transit Potential of the Kaliningrad Region

Abstract

Implementation of the project of development of multimodal transportations from China to Europe through ports of the Kaliningrad region has begun. One of the reasons for changing the conventional route (through the Republic of Belarus) of Chinese goods to Europe were infrastructure restrictions at the border crossing Brest-Malashevichi. JSC "United transport and logistics company-Eurasian railway Alliance" ("UTLC ERA"), in order to retain transit cargo from China to Europe, implemented a new project together with JSC "Russian Railways" and the Kaliningrad railway-a new route Chongqing (China) -Duisburg (Germany), which passes through the Kaliningrad region. Given the geographical proximity of Kaliningrad seaport in proximity to developed European countries, it was decided to create multimodal delivery container cargo transit through Kaliningrad seaport in communication, the East -West -East, bypassing the Polish section of the railway.In addition, to improve the use of transport and transit potential of the region, several routes have been developed, which are alternatives to existing ones. The implementation of measures to modernize the infrastructure and a number of organizational decisions will reduce the time it takes the trains to pass through the territory of the Kaliningrad region, which is an additional bonus, with the help of which it will be possible to attract additional transit cargo flows. This will improve the use of existing infrastructure and improve the level of service.