Seven-month volume of container traffic by the Klaipeda-Kaliningrad railway surged 57.5 percent from January-July of 2010, to 430,000 units, Lithuanian Railways official told the 3rd Baltic Transport Forum in Kaliningrad.
Thanks to containerization growth, the state-owned company plans to resume this year operation of the Mercury container train. The train will run between Kaliningrad, Klaipeda and Moscow, said Stasys Gudvalis, LR’s Deputy Director General, Director of Freight Transportation Directorate.
The Mercury was first launched in 2003 as a joint project of Russia, Belarus and Lithuania. Its operation had boosted container traffic on the Kaliningrad railway by two times as much. However, in 2006 the project was canceled due to low level of profitability.