[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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @04:10AM
Do Eurasian countries envy North America's freight rail the way we envy their passenger rail? Probably not; because this actually sounds practical whereas our envious efforts to promote high-speed rail don't seem to be working out so well.