Editing Trans-Siberian Railway (section)

===Developments in shipping===
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On January 11, 2008, China, Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and Germany agreed to collaborate on a cargo train service between Beijing and Hamburg.<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 January 2008 |title=Beijing to Hamburg fast cargo rail link planned |work=The China Post |url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/2008/01/11/138592/Beijing-to.htm |access-date=23 April 2012}}</ref>

The railway can typically deliver containers in {{frac|1|3}} to {{frac|1|2}} of the time of a sea voyage, and in late 2009 announced a 20% reduction in its container shipping rates.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}} With its 2009 rate schedule, the Trans-Siberian Railway will transport a forty-foot container to Poland from [[Yokohama]] for $2,820, or from [[Busan]] for $2,154.<ref>{{Cite journal |year=2010 |title=Chapter 4: Freight Rates |url=http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/rmt2010_en.pdf |journal=Review of Maritime Transport |publisher=United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |page=89 |issn=0566-7682 |access-date=31 December 2011}}</ref>