Trans-Caspian Railway (Yiwu - Afghanistan) Started
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- Sep 12,2016
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Trans-Caspian Railway (Yiwu - Afghanistan) Started
At 10:18 of the morning of August 28, X9010 Trans-Caspian Railway (Yiwu - Afghanistan) started the first departure from Yiwu West Railway Station to Mazar-i-Sharif Afghanistan. This is the international multimodal railway of the fifth direction from the world's largest small commodity market place - Yiwu following Yiwu-Five Central Asian Countries Railways and Trans-Caspian Railway from Yiwu to five Central Asian countries, Madrid, Tehran, Russia and other places.
This trip of international multimodal railway had a total of 50 carriages 100 TEUs, full of Yiwu small commodities, the gross weight of 1164 tons, the value of more than $4.05 million. According to the introduction of Yiwu Customs officer in the scene Zheng Bo, the railway left China through Alashankou Customs, then entered Afghanistan by passing Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, finally arrived in Mazar-i-Sharif, the whole journey of 7500 km, only with 15 days. This is the first freight railway from Yiwu to Afghanistan, which opened up a safe, fast, economic, green Middle East business railway logistics new channel, expected to achieve the normal operation of the line every Monday.
According to reports, Trans-Caspian Railway (Yiwu - Afghanistan) is the fifth international multimodal railway line started from Yiwu. The five lines will jointly cover the wider region of Eurasia. In recent year, the operation frequency of Yiwu-Five Central Asian Countries Railways and Trans-Caspian Railway from Yiwu West Freight Station had been substantially increased, that in the peak it opened four trips of Yiwu-Five Central Asian Countries Railways and Trans-Caspian Railway every week. Mazar-i-Sharif as the end station of this trip of Trans-Caspian Railway, is also the logistics hub radiated to the Middle East. The opening of Trans-Caspian Railway (Yiwu - Afghanistan), would directly promote the interconnection of China and the Middle East, to promote trade cooperation upgrade, beneficial to the deepening and implementation of “One Belt One Road” in the Middle East.
The opening of Yiwu-Five Central Asian Countries Railways and Trans-Caspian Railway to create a safe, efficient, convenient, green international railway logistics channel, can effectively promote the goods of Zhejiang and even the whole country to the world, at the same time, also provide a new engine for the world’s "small commodities capital" Yiwu to achieve "buy globally, sell globally".
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