[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, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday May 15 2018, @05:49PM
Is this something to do with the Trump/Iran/Treaty that I've missed with China supporting the Iranians?
That's what I gathered.
China eliminated their sanctions on Iran when they complied with the nuke treaty.
This railroad is evidence that they're not going to re-implement sanctions on Iran just because the US decided to renege on that deal.