On April 30, 2016, a ceremony was held at the PCC Intermodal S.A. terminal in Kutno, during which the Secretary of Sichuan Province, Wang Dongming, gave the signal for the departure of the first regular train from Kutno to Chengdu. The operator of the connection on the Kutno – Brest line is PCC Intermodal S.A. At the Polish-Belarusian border, 41 40’ containers will be transshipped onto broad-gauge platforms, from where they will begin their further journey to China. The train’s transit from central Poland (Kutno) to Chengdu will take approximately 11 days.
During the ceremony, partners from China announced the official opening of the Chengdu office in Poland, and the head of the Customs Office in Łódź, Kazimierz Gołygowski, presented the CEO of PCC Intermodal S.A., Dariusz Stefański, with an official document confirming the launch of a temporary storage warehouse at the Kutno container terminal. Major communication routes of the East-West and Baltic-Adriatic corridors intersect in Kutno. From today, Kutno is a symbol of the connection between the new Silk Road and the Amber Road. Chinese cargo from Kutno will be further distributed throughout Europe using the network of regular connections of PCC Intermodal S.A.:
=> 6 times a week to Rotterdam
=> 5 times a week to Hamburg
=> 4 times a week to the Ruhr area (Duisburg)
=> 9 times a week to the Berlin / Brandenburg region (Frankfurt Oder)
=> 6 times a week to Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia, and Dębica.
The ceremony was attended by over 100 people, including: Secretary of Sichuan Province – Wang Dongming, Vice Mayor of Chengdu – Liu Shoucheng, Marshal of the Łódź Voivodeship – Witold Stępień, Mayor of Kutno – Zbigniew Burzyński, Head of the Customs Office in Łódź – Kazimierz Gołygowski, and CEO of PCC Intermodal S.A. – Dariusz Stefański.