East China added another China-Europe freight train route
A freight train, loaded with 100 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of goods including daily necessities, apparel and hardware accessories, departed East China's Jinhua City on June 18th, bounding for the Turkmenbashi seaport in Turkmenistan, Xinhua reports
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After reaching Turkmenbashi, the cargo will be shipped across the Caspian Sea to Baku, Azerbaijan. The train inaugurated the Jinhua-Turkmenbashi-Baku multimodal transport corridor over the Caspian Sea, which is the 26th China-Europe freight route originating from Zhejiang Province.
The train will exit China via Xinjiang's Horgos in the northwest of the country, before traversing key Central Asian cities like Almaty in Kazakhstan, Tashkent in Uzbekistan and Ashgabat in Turkmenistan en route to Turkmenbashi.
This route employs ‘rail-sea-rail’ multimodal transport. By utilising the Turkmenbashi seaport for the Caspian Sea crossing instead of the traditional route, the logistics path is optimised – reducing the total transit time by approximately one day.
As reported, the new route will accelerate the flow of goods between China and the markets of the five Central Asian countries and Central and Eastern Europe, fostering smoother trade between China and the countries along this route.
