TEHRAN (ECOIDEAL)- A freight container train was sent from China’s Yinchuan city to Iran on Friday through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, the Turkmen foreign ministry said.
The ministry added that another freight container train will be sent along the same route from the Northwestern Chinese city of Xi’an in Shaanxi province on Saturday.
On Thursday, a test container train was sent to Iran from China’s Changsha city through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. The route runs through the Khorgos border crossing, the Altynkol-Bolashak (Kazakhstan) and Serhetyaka-Akyayla (Turkmenistan) railway lines to Tehran.
The length of the Changsha-Tehran route is more than 10,297 kilometers, the travel time is 14 days, which is much less than by sea (from 25 to 30 days).
The freight train has more than fifty containers with consumer goods.
Development of container transportation along the route will contribute to its attractiveness, building up of Turkmen transit potential and growth of its competitiveness.
Source: Farsnews