{"id":182777,"date":"2025-03-05T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T08:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=60395"},"modified":"2025-03-05T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T08:54:12","slug":"kazakhstan-and-partners-organise-multimodal-rail-connection-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=182777","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan and partners organise multimodal rail connection with India"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kazakhstan and India have launched a new rail service between one another. Twelve 20-foot containers with ceramic tiles departed from the port of Mundra in India and will arrive in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana in 25 to 30 days.\u00a0<\/strong>
\n<\/span>The new service is a cooperative effort by Kazakh Railways subsidiary Kedentransservice, the Uzbek operator UztemirYulKonteyner and Transport and Logistics Centre of Turkmenistan. After a sea leg between Mundra and the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, the containers will continue their journey northward. They will cross Iran into Turkmenistan, and then into Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n

In total, trains will cover 4,300 kilometres of the route, whereas maritime shipping is responsible for 1,585 kilometres.<\/p>\n

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“The transportation is carried out within the framework of the development of container service along the eastern route of the North-South corridor”, KTZ explains. “This corridor allows to significantly reduce delivery times, costs for the transportation of goods and expand the opportunities of exporters and importers of countries.”<\/p>\n

Earlier, KTZ announced a new China – Europe train service that also traverses Turkmenistan and Iran, but in the opposite direction. The first train on that route carries television components that will be delivered in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland.<\/p>\n