China launched a new railway service to Uzbekistan

China has launched a new railway service to Uzbekistan, Spot reports, citing the Xinhua agency. It was reported that on August 29, a cargo train of China Railway Beijing Group departed from Zhangjiakou, Hubei Province to Tashkent. Automobile spare parts, household appliances, and textile products are brought in the composition of 14 container platforms. The train route is expected to pass through Khorgos dry port on the border with Kazakhstan and reach Tashkent in about 15 days. The report notes that the new route will be an important step in the development of freight transportation in the region. It is planned to create a new multimodal logistics center on the basis of the railway and road connection in Zhangjiakou. In June 2023, Zhejiang Union of Railway Logistics Company, Uzbekistan Railways JSC and Kyrgyz Railway National Company State Enterprise in cooperation with the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan multimodal transport corridor. train movement was started. In the same month, a container train was launched from China's Xiamen port to Uzbekistan via Iran. Cargo containers are brought from China by sea to Bander-Abbas port and loaded on railway platforms in Iran's Bander-Abbas port and enter Uzbekistan through Turkmenistan.