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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
HANGZHOU, June 18 (Xinhua) — A train loaded with 100 standard containers of daily necessities, clothing and accessories, metal fittings and other goods departed from Jinhua City in east China’s Zhejiang Province on Wednesday morning for Turkmenbashi Port in Turkmenistan, from where they will travel by sea to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. It is the first train to operate on the Jinhua-Turkmenbashi-Baku trans-Caspian international transport route.
According to Wu Xiaoping, an employee of the Hangzhou Railway Logistics Center, the train departed from the Jinhua South Station, will leave China through the Khorgos checkpoint /Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Republic, Northwest China/, and pass through Almaty, Tashkent, Ashgabat and other important cities in Central Asia.
Transportation of goods from Jinhua to Baku involves the use of a multimodal method: “railway – sea – rail”. Using the Turkmenbashi seaport to cross the Caspian Sea instead of the traditional route will reduce the time of transportation of goods by about one day.
The successful opening of this route will provide enterprises with a more efficient, convenient and reliable logistics solution, and will promote the growth of trade turnover between China and the five Central Asian countries, as well as China and Central and Eastern European countries, Wu Xiaoping added. -0-