Rail linking Central Asia to Persian Gulf opened

03/12/2014

Freight transit times will become faster following the opening of a new railway linking central Asia with the Persian Gulf. The 928km route, from western Kazakhstan to northern Iran, will open with a capacity of 5m tons of cargo annually, but that is expected to ...

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