The heads of the two companies signed a freight forwarding agreement in Almaty on Wednesday.
"We agreed to start trial shipments of Chinese freight in the near future, with Lithuania's railway infrastructure to be used for the distribution of such freight to Scandinavian and Western European countries," Stasys Gudvalis, deputy CEO of the Lithuanian state railway company, said in a press release on Wednesday.
Saule Logistics Solutions, a joint venture established by KTZ Express and V.Paulius & Associates Real Estate, a company that is part of Lithuania's VPA Group, last June opened its first intermodal terminal, Klaipeda West Gate, in the Lithuanian port and last fall launched construction on a second terminal.
The first terminal has an annual capacity of 100,000 TEUs and the second one will have a capacity of 1 million TEUs.
Around 800,000 tons of freight, mostly mineral, oil and food products, is transported by rail between Lithuania and Kazakhstan annually.
