BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr.8
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Kazakhstan’s KTZ Express National Company resumed transit transportation of metal rolling from China to Russia, Trend reports with reference to KTZ Express.
The train, consisting of 84 containers with a total weight of 2,400 tons of rolled iron dispatched from the Urumqi station (China) in the end of the March. The train went through the Kazakhstan’s border crossing Dostyk (on border with China) and to towards the station Murom-1 (Russia).
The cargo is to be delivered to the RusTechnologii Murom LLC, which is one of the the largest producers of galvanized steel in Russia.
The route length of 4,300 kilometers takes seven days for the train to move through. The train is to move on a regular basis twice a month in the future.
KTZ Express partnered with Russia’s TransContainer PJSC to establish trains transit.
A number of international transport routes go through territory of Kazakhstan. Since the beginning of novel coronavirus outbreak, Kazakhstan has suspended passenger traffic with a number of countries, including China.
However, this measure did not affect cargo and transit transportation, which is still underway as usual.
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