UPS adds six new stations to key Euro-China container transport

United States logistics delivery giant UPS announced on Tuesday that it would add six more stations to its multimodal container rail service between Europe and China, saying it was responding to rising demand for goods deliveries along the route and that railway freight services had proved more cost efficient than other solutions.

UPS said it made the decision as Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises pushed to sell their products globally and the Chinese manufacturing industry continued its shift from coastal cities to interior cities.

The six new stations will be at Changsha, Chongqing, Suzhou and Wuhan in China, and Duisburg in Germany and Warsaw in Poland. They will be added to the existing Chinese mainland stations of Zhengzhou and Chengdu, and the European stations of Lodz in Poland and Hamburg in Germany.