Kazakh And Chinese Leaders Attend TITR Truck And Rail Container Transport Event
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, July 3. Kazakh President
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Chinese President Xi Jinping took part in
a ceremony of dispatching trucks and railroad containers along the
Trans-Caspian International transport Route (TITR, or Middle
Corridor), the statement of the press service of the president of
Kazakhstan said, Trend reports.
The participants of the event demonstrated a video about the
transit voyage along the route of the "Great Silk Road", after
which Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Xi Jinping let the movement of
cargo ferries start.
Then the presidents inaugurated the cultural centers of
Kazakhstan in Beijing and China in Astana.
Furthermore, the opening by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Xi Jinping
of a branch of the Beijing University of Language and Culture based
on the International University of Astana was a special event.
The Middle Corridor links the container rail freight
transportation networks of China and the European Union countries
via Central Asia, the Caucasus, Türkiye, and Eastern Europe.
The multilateral multimodal transportation infrastructure links
the ferry terminals of the Caspian and Black Seas with the railway
systems of China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Türkiye,
Ukraine, and Poland.
The middle corridor facilitates the flow of cargo from China to
Türkiye, as well as to Europe and vice versa.
To note, the route train along this corridor delivers cargo from
China to Europe in an average of 20–25 days, and this is one of the
main advantages of this transport corridor.
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