China's Silk Road revival steams ahead as cargo train arrives in Iran
by Saeed Kamali Dehghan from on (#141EB)
Goods travel 6,462 miles in 14 days as part of efforts to resurrect ancient trade route connecting east with Europe
A long-distance cargo train has travelled from China to Iran as part of an attempted revival of the ancient Silk Road, a trans-Asian trade route connecting the east to Europe and the Mediterranean Sea.
The 32-container train, which arrived in Tehran on Monday, took 14 days to complete the 6,462 mile (10,399km) journey from China's eastern Zhejiang province through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - one month less than the sea route from Shanghai to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.
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