Reference News Website November 9 report - According to RIA Novosti, November 8 report, the Russian trade representative office in Iran announced that the first freight train from Russia has arrived at a land port near Tehran.
The report stated: "This is an important milestone in the development of logistics services on the 'North-South' international transport corridor. This train consists of 62 containers carrying sulfate pulp, which departed from the northern railway base in Russia and arrived at the Apalin land port in Iran along the eastern route of the corridor."
This transportation line starts 900 kilometers north of Moscow, passing through Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan into Iran. The journey takes 13 days and is part of a comprehensive logistics solution developed and promoted by the Russian Railway Logistics Company based on the 'North-South' international transport corridor.
The Russian side pointed out that Apalin is a modern multimodal logistics hub located at the intersection of Iran's "East-West" and "North-South" railway corridors, and it is one of Iran's largest logistics projects. This project was just commissioned in May this year and is gradually reaching its planned throughput capacity. (Translated by Li Ran)
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