China’s ICNS news reported that the train left China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Monday to pass first through that country’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and then through Kazakhstan and the Caspian Sea to reach the Anzali Port in Iran.
The train is scheduled to arrive in Iran’s northern Anzali Port in about twenty days.
The train is carrying 51 containers with a total weight of around 1,400 tons and a value of over 3 million and 60,000 dollars.
This new route’s length decreases the length of the trip by twenty days, which is economizing 897 dollars per container.
This is while the first container-carrying train of the newly-launched Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran-Turkey railway arrived in Tehran railway station three days ago.
The train which carried 24 wagons having forty-eight 20-foot containers of sulfur, will pass through Turkey to Europe.
Increasing exchanges between China and Europe requires more safe routes between the two sides and Iran is a golden ring linking China, as the world’s biggest exporter of goods to European countries and vice versa.
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