DHL Global Forwarding adds Taiwan to North Asia multimodal network
DHL Global Forwarding has added Taiwan to its North Asia multimodal network. The sea link between Taiwan and mainland China offers customers the full-container load door-to-door service, DHL Railline, and will connect the leading Taichung port to Shanghai with a rail link to Warsaw via Suzhou, which also serves as a base for over 10,000 Taiwan-funded export-oriented enterprises.
DHL now offers three multimodal rail services between mainland China and Europe.
In a statement issued today (3 November), DHL said: “Similar to the Japan service originating from Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe and Hakata launched last year, the new multimodal Taiwan-China-Europe service will offer freight costs savings of up to 85% and CO2 emissions by up to 90% compared to air freight with shorter transit times than ocean freight.”
The scheduled service will use a combination of trucking, sea and rail solutions to move cargo from Taiwan into DHL Global Forwarding China’s rail freight solution. The company says that this reduces the delivery time by between 10 and 21 days, depending on origin and destination pairs, compared to solely using ocean freight.
Using the DHL Railline service, customers can block out single containers, wagon groups or whole block trains.
Steve Huang, CEO, DHL Global Forwarding China, said: “Our new service extension comes at a time when China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative – an economic initiative of up to US$21 trillion (EUR19 trillion) – is taking shape and expected to strengthen cross-border economic ties in markets between Europe and Asia. Our multimodal network directly links Taiwan to mainland China and Europe, both of which are among Taiwan’s top five trading nations, bringing more opportunities to Taiwan enterprises. In addition, the European Commission recently announced that it is exploring negotiations on investment with Taiwan as part of a trade globalization plan, showing the island’s growing importance in the global marketplace.”
