7000 km of new Eurasian Energy Channel in Central Europe

An intercontinental railway from Shanghai to Scandinavian Pen., 7000 km "China Economic weekly" reporter Bang Jialong/Shanghai World Expo site reports a new transcontinental railway across Europe and Asia is brewing between the four Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland), Russia and China, and the chances of successful construction are great. May 9, 2010, during the celebrations at the Swedish Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, Reve Tebely Leif Zetterberg, the state secretary of the Swedish Business, Energy and transport ministry, told China Economic Weekly that a large channel of resources and energy transport across Europe and Asia was brewing,　　It will be a trans-intercontinental railway from Shanghai to Scandinavian Pen., 7000 km long, and is named "North Eastern Corridor", the northern East Corridor, from North Europe to China.　　The project will involve China, Russia and the Nordic countries of Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway, and the heads of the transport and railway sectors will conduct consultations in June this year, "primarily to seek political agreement", and to discuss specific engineering issues in Moscow in September this year. Reve Zet Burley told China Economic Weekly: "The Nordic countries and Russia are discussing cooperation projects with China and conducting research on how the northern European mineral resources will be transported to China." "The project's brewing has gained momentum. "Over the past few years, shipping companies, including DHL, in Sweden and Europe, have made a wish to build the railway corridor, hoping to gain greater market share in land transport outside the waterway mode," he said.　　"Reve Zet Burley said.　　Sweden, as the current EU Presidency, is also actively promoting the project, "because for the EU, if the plan succeeds, the rail line will extend to the south of the Baltic Sea to reach the European heartland, which is good for the European economy as a whole."　　In addition, Reve Zet Burley said, because the railway will be to transport China's high-quality iron ore resources, which is very much needed in China, so, "the project in a number of areas have been recognized by the Chinese side." Reve Zet Burley is confident of the final adoption and construction of the project. "The global transport market is increasing, environmentally friendly and low-cost transport, there is no sound of opposition, the current administrative procedures of the railway line issues and management issues need to be resolved through political means", and, " The use of electronic file transfer technology and the unification of Customs inspection methods will make the railway large passage of the entire transport time from the original 15 days, compressed to about 7 days.