On Wednesday, the first freight train departed from Jinhua City in East China’s Zhejiang Province to the port of Turkmenbashi, symbolizing the official opening of the trans-Caspian international transport corridor with its starting point in this economically developed province of China.

The train, loaded with 100 standard containers of clothing, accessories, metal parts and other goods, will arrive at the port of Turkmenbashi. Following this, the containers with goods will be transported from the port by water across the Caspian Sea to the Azerbaijani port of Baku.

The train will cross the Chinese-Kazakh border through the Khorgos checkpoint, after which it will pass through such major cities as Almaty, Tashkent and Ashgabat.

The new transport route is expected to reduce the load on the logistics line from the port of Aktau to Baku and speed up the delivery of Chinese goods to the markets of Central Asia and Central and Eastern Europe, the said service claims.

As it became known, this is already the 26th logistics route opened by Zhejiang Province within the framework of international railway freight transportation between China and Europe.