The railway route is an international combination of existing railways with a total length of over 11,000 kilometers running from Chongqing and over Xi'an, Lanzhou and Urumqi in China, Kazakstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland to Duisburg in Germany, the sources indicated. Taking about 18-20 days, the railway shipments are intended to replace marine shipments which take about 30 days from notebook production bases concentrated in eastern and southern China to Europe, the sources pointed out.
Shipments via the rail route are scheduled for one train trip per 1-2 weeks for the time being, and the average transportation cost is estimated to be higher than that for marine shipments mainly because a train carries fewer containers than a ship, the sources indicated. After the trial, shipments are expected to increase to one train trip per day and the time may be reduced to 13 days, the sources pointed out. Because the rail route crosses regions differing in temperature and humidity, Acer needs to test the climatic impact on notebooks during shipments.
Acer experimenting with railroad notebook shipments to Europe
Posted on Monday, August 01 2011 @ 15:41 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck