Silk Road revived by train

tehran - The first train from China to Iran earlier this week arrived in Tehran. Iranian Railways reported enthusiastically that the freight transported 32 containers, the Silk Road revived.

The train traveled 9,500 kilometers from the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang to the Iranian capital. The trip lasted two weeks and was thus thirty days shorter for the merchandise than by ship from Shanghai to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.

The boss of the Iranian railways, Seyed Mohsen Pour Aghaei, said the resurrection of the Silk Road is crucial for all the countries along the railway. Which should in the future also reach Europe. Iran can then, according to him money to freight between China and Europe. Freight from China to Iran beginning with a low frequency of one train per month, but that should be later.