Railway experts have hailed the inaugural freight service as historic.
KELANA JAYA, Selangor: A newly launched cargo rail service connecting Malaysia , Thailand , Laos and China is expected to open new markets in the region and lower costs for local businesses and people.
Industry experts predict that the new logistics option will spur the rail manufacturing industry and lower logistics costs by up to 30 per cent. The eventual goal is to ramp up frequency to daily runs between the both cities, said the firm’s CEO Mohd Rani Hisham Samsudin. This happens at the train journey's next border between Thailand and Laos, as the latter's railway differs from Malaysia's and Thailand's.At the Thanaleng Dry Port in Vientiane, containers are shifted one by one to a different set of wagons – a process that takes nearly two hours.
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