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[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: 2) by frojack on Tuesday May 15 2018, @04:43AM (4 children)
The smart way is to use containerized loads, and just lift them from well car to well car at the borders. You need maybe half a mile of parallel track to minimize handling.
China knows a thing or three about containers.
Why sunflower seeds?
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday May 15 2018, @06:39AM
"Why sunflower seeds?"
Supply and demand I would expect. China is the worlds #2 exporter, Iran is #7 importer, so there are tons of seeds to be moved in that direction.
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(Score: 2, Troll) by MostCynical on Tuesday May 15 2018, @06:57AM
Because no one is going to care about them, for the first few loads.
Then, once everyone is comfortable with seed transport, larger things can be moved, either instead of, or *under* the seeds.
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(Score: 1) by pTamok on Tuesday May 15 2018, @08:30AM
I'm not sure moving containers is faster than using variable-gauge axles in the bogies. See this Talgo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwNl-g_91GE [youtube.com]
I don't know if that is what is being used, but it certainly shows what could be done, and the video mentions the system being used on the border between Khazakhstan and China.
(Score: 1, Troll) by driverless on Wednesday May 16 2018, @04:25AM
Because they pack in well and run/settle everywhere, neatly concealing what's really being shipped from China to Iran.