Transit
Door-ready adds half the gap between departures — the average wait if your cargo becomes ready at a random moment. On a 4-a-week service that is 0.9 days, and it is the figure a road-versus-rail comparison usually leaves out.
Legs and handovers
A single through leg — no gauge break and no operator handover en route.
- 1 Helsinki Vuosaari → Klaipėda Port RailVR Transpoint · Broad (1520 mm) · 1,050 km · 3 d
Track gauge and borders
The spacing between the rails — whether the wheels can run through, or the load has to change trains.
- Countries crossed
- FI → LT
- Gauge changes
- None — through running
- Origin gauge
- Broad (1520 mm)
- Destination gauge
- Broad (1520 mm) + Standard (1435 mm)
Loading gauge clearance
The height and width of tunnels and bridges — whether the load fits through. A different constraint from track gauge above: this corridor can have no gauge break at all and still refuse a high-cube container.
Set by FI, the narrowest network on the route. One restrictive tunnel anywhere caps the whole journey regardless of how generous the rest is. Substantially larger than anything in western Europe — the 1520 mm network was built to a bigger envelope. Height is rarely the binding constraint on a Silk Road corridor; the track-gauge break is.
- 40ft standard (8'6") on a container flat
- Clears +1554 mm
- High-cube (9'6") on a container flat
- Clears +1249 mm
- Swap body on a container flat
- Clears +1475 mm
- P400 semi-trailer on a pocket wagon
- Clears +1030 mm
Profiles are the published maxima for each network's core freight routes. Individual lines differ in both directions, so a load within 50 mm of the limit needs the operator to confirm the specific path. Compare wagon deck heights →
Emissions
GLEC v3 planning estimate — not a regulatory declaration. Model your own payload with the transit calculator.
A rare all-broad-gauge intra-EU relation: no gauge change needed between Finland and the Baltic ports.