GEFCO welcomes first Silk Road train to France

The GEFCO Group has welcomed its first full container loaded train to France from China on the new Silk Road. The train took 40ft containers from Wuhan in China, to Dourges in the North of France, for customer PSA in less than three weeks.

 “With over 65 years’ experience in logistics, GEFCO has been operating rail shipments from Asia to Europe for over four years,” said Anthony Gunn, executive vice president of GEFCO Freight Forwarding. “The Group has been supporting the growing trade between the two continents as well as container deliveries by rail, continuously looking for new cost effective, flexible, reliable and secure solutions to meet customers’ requirements and support their business development.”