it would be beneficial for central asian railways to offer integrated freightforwarding and logistics services across the region practically this means they are organised around a significant number of terminals which in turn are connected to warehouses within the urban railway network moving a single wagon typically requires a long series of logistics operations the wagon is first loaded at a warehouse connected to the railways it is then sent to the main terminal of its city to be consolidated into a freight train it might then go through successive marshalling before reaching the terminal of destination