Baku ( WNAM MONITORING): For the first time in the history of Azerbaijan-China trade relations, a container train carrying export goods from Azerbaijan to China departed from Baku, Azerbaijan Railways CJSC told.
The departure ceremony of the first export train was attended by high-level delegations from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan railway authorities, leadership of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route secretariat, as well as senior officials from China’s Xi’an Chanba International Port Management Committee.
The 62-countainer train will deliver the cargo multimodally via Kazakhstan to Xi’an Port, one of China’s biggest dry ports. As part of the project, it’s planned to send a total of 15,000 tons or 600 containers of export cargo to China via this route by the end of 2024.
