Chinese Silk Road train arrives in Iran
The first Silk Road cargo train to travel directly between China and Iran has arrived in Tehran after a 10,400 km journey, which took 14 days.
The locomotive, carrying 32 containers of commercial products from China’s eastern province of Zhejiang, forms part of China’s One Belt One Road strategy of enhancing maritime and rail transport infrastructure between China and Europe via Asia.
Fars news agency reported that the train travelled through the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan after starting off from the Chinese city Yiwu.
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