Mostafa Nasiri said in an interview with IRNA that the transit train is carrying 39 containers, carrying construction material from Russia has passed through that country, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan, before entering the Sarakhs International Train Station last night.
He said that after the customs clearance procedure, the transit train left today for Bandar Abbas, which will reach there in about 60 to 70 hours, through which it will continue its trip to one of India’s ports.
The managing director of Khorasan Railways Company said that the Russia-India corridor is a sustainable, economic, fast North-South transit route capable of transiting millions of tons of goods, appropriate with the railways’ capacity of Iran.
The India-Russia transit container train that entered Iran through Sarakhs last night is a part of the eastern path of the North-South corridor that is 3,800 kilometers long from Moscow to Sarakhs, and 1,600 kilometers from there to Bandar Abbas. There the 39-container of the transit train are dismounted from the train and loaded on a ship to be forwarded to India by sea.
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