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Aug 19, 2019 (newstodate): Within the coming few months, exporters of Norwegian seafood may have a new venue for shipments to Asia.
   According to media, a Scandinavian consortium with rail consultant Micael Blomster and Railgate Finland at its head will launch a rail cargo connection starting at Narvik, and passing through the Swedish-Finnish border crossing to a railroad hub at Kouvola in Finland for onward transportation across Russia to Xian in China.  
   The entire journey is expected to take around 12 days, losing to air transportation when its comes to total transportation time - but winning on costs that are expected to be some 80 percent lower than shipping seafood by air.
   The comparison is, however, confusing apples and pears: the rail venue will carry frozen seafood, not fresh products for obvious reasons..  

   The project has become feasible after the Russian Customs has announced that agricultural products, raw materials and foodstuffs can be transported through Russia by road or rail as of 1 July 1, 2019, provided shipments adhere to traceability requirements, GLONASS seals.