China opened world’s longest train route
between its eastern city of Yiwu and Spanish capital Madrid. The newly route is 450 miles longer than the famous Moscow-Vladivostok
connection.
The first train, dubbed Yixinou left Yiwu, an industrial center less than 200 miles south of Shanghai, on
Tuesday and is expected to reach Madrid in December after traversing
Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and France.
The 82-wagon cargo train is expected to
take 21 days to travel 6,200 miles, passing through six countries between China
and Spain.
However, unlike the Russian line, goods
on the Yixinou will have to be transferred to different wagons at three points
during the trip because of incompatible track gauges in different countries.
China was eager to connect Yiwu, the
world’s largest wholesale market for small consumer goods to Europe by railway.
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