[A] Freight train service from Bayannur city in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to Tehran, Iran's capital, was launched Thursday morning.
The train, carrying 1,150 tonnes of sunflower seeds, will travel 8,352 kilometers through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, arriving in Tehran in 15 days, said Chen Bo, deputy manager of the Hohhot office of China Railway.
The new train route will shorten transportation time by at least 20 days compared with ocean shipping.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Tuesday May 15 2018, @04:10AM (1 child)
What you are missing? That the One Belt One Road [wikipedia.org] is on the move.
What does it mean? The USA influence in the region is waning and replaced by the Chinese... mmm... "economic space".
They'll defend their interest in that area, you know?
(the Saudis influence of in the region and the fundamentalist Muslim accents the Wahhabis push will get tempered on the medium term)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by DavePolaschek on Wednesday May 16 2018, @01:33PM
There's also the Iron Silk Road https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Land_Bridge#Iron_Silk_Road_via_Turkey [wikipedia.org]
This would be one of the "number of projects," I'm guessing.