Many of our cross-border e-commerce and manufacturers, when they have the logistics needs to export their products to Russia, struggle with such a question -- which mode of transportation should I use for my goods? What kind of logistics is better for freight going to Russia? By air or by land? Which one is more timely and secure?

Today I will give you one by one answer to these doubts. Here, I will export to Russia three modes of transportation: international air transport, international land transport, international sea transport, these three logistics modes of horizontal comparison, and then for everyone to evaluate the different advantages and disadvantages of each mode of transportation.

A. Air Shipment

As we all know, the straight-line distance from Beijing to Moscow in China is 5,843 kilometers. This long distance determines that we are bound to spend a lot of time on the road when carrying out transnational transportation, which will greatly prolong the aging cycle of logistics.

The speed of our aircraft is about 700-900km/h, which is the fastest logistics tool at present. This feature can shorten our logistics time to less than half a month or even a week, which can significantly improve the transportation efficiency.

However, air transportation also has many disadvantages. Fast transportation also means the disadvantages of high cost and low transportation volume. Therefore, it is better to use air transportation for the goods with high unit price, small volume and light weight.

B. Land Transportation

As a neighboring country, we share a border of 4,300 kilometers with Russia. For land transport, there are two common routes, namely from the northeast to Chita Prefecture, Amur Prefecture, Judezhou, Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai and other places in Russia, or to Alashankou in Xinjiang. Through Kazakhstan, Belarus and other countries into Russia.

Land transport is divided into two kinds of automobile transport and rail transport, because of the distance, in the automobile transport, whether fast land transport or economic land transport, transport cycle will be as long as 11-22 days, transport cycle is longer, but because of the lower cost, can transport large goods, and the route and the city is relatively flexible, with a strong adaptability.

In terms of rail transport, the whole container is usually used for rail transport. This mode of transportation uses containers for whole vehicle transportation, which can transport bulk goods safely and efficiently. However, due to the need for railway LCL, the logistics time is relatively long, generally requiring 25-30 days.

Overall, land transport or export Russian logistics is one of the mainstream ways.

C. Ocean Shipment

The use of sea freight in Russia is narrower because of the country's higher latitude and colder climate, so there are few freeze-free ports. However, as the largest volume of freight, the lowest freight mode, the sea still obtained some logistics transport side's favor, more use in large companies in the freight. Through the above analysis, we must have a certain understanding of the mode of transport to export to Russia! The specific choice of which kind of logistics or need to judge according to the actual situation. However, please note that if your goods are to be shipped to Russia, then Alliance International Logistics is definitely a good choice.