China’s first int’l cargo train leaves for Tehran

Tehran, IRNA – China’s first International Trans-Caspian cargo train left the Yii Chwan Train Station in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China for Iran’s Anzali Port to be China’s first Trans-Caspian cargo train to West Asia. China’s ICNS news reported that the train left China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Monday to pass first through that country’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and then through Kazakhstan and the Caspian Sea to reach the Anzali Port in Iran. The train is scheduled to arrive in Iran’s northern Anzali Port in about twenty days. The train is carrying 51 containers with a total weight of around 1,400 tons and a value of over 3 million and 60,000 dollars. This new route’s length decreases the length of the trip by twenty days, which is economizing 897 dollars per container. Follow us on Twitter @IrnaEnglish