[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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @10:18AM
The Washington Post blog [theiranproject.com] has an entry about it: ...travel times will apparently be shortened by at least 20 days in comparison to cargo ship...there seem to be no plans so far to give in to U.S. demands...Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that Iran and China would 'maintain normal economic ties and trade.'"