Current trends on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Japanese automakers involved

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Once considered slow and a relic of the past, Russia's mighty Trans-Siberian Railway has come to life in the 21st century to play a pivotal role in cargo transport, connecting economies from Europe to the Asia-Pacific region.

 

In the Troitsa port in Zarubino of the Primorsky Territory, the Trans-Siberian Railway offers a direct benefit to Japanese companies.

 

The port has a container terminal for the Trans-Siberian Railway and cargo block trains can transport up to 300 cars in one delivery. Each rail car holds 10 automobiles stacked on two decks. One train run consists of 30 such rail cars.

 

In 2008, Mazda Motor Corp. became the first Japanese automaker to use the Trans-Siberian Railway. Mazda still accounts for 98 percent of the Japanese cars transported on the railway, but Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., which manufactures Subaru cars, have also begun using the railway to transport some of their vehicles to the various nations that made up the former Soviet Union.

 

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