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posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 15 2018, @03:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the chew-chew dept.

[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: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Tuesday May 15 2018, @06:13AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday May 15 2018, @06:13AM (#679961) Homepage
    It's business news, even if not tech news.

    Trains to china were an internal headline in last week's company newsletter for one company I'm involved in - and this is very good news as the products are perishable. They may be Victorean tech, but they're still having a significant influence over modern businesses.
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