Posted on 08/04/2013 1:50:22 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The first freight train from the eastern Chinese city of Zhengzdou has arrived in Hamburg, Germany.
It covered more than 10-thousand kilometres in just 15 days – halving the normal travel time by sea.
(Excerpt) Read more at euronews.com ...
How old is the Trans-Siberian railway?
I wish the story even hinted at some minor details about the route taken.
Somewhere, alone, a Straits pirate cries bitter tears.
Found another article with this:
Late last year, Kazakhstan completed construction of a 293-km (183-mile) stretch from Zhetygen to Korgas at the Chinese border, looping it in to the existing national railway network and opening the second China-Europe link across its territory.
Europe-bound trains from China cross from Kazakhstan into Russia. Then they go via Belarus and Poland before reaching Duisburg in Germany.
the annual volume of freight turnover along the new route, guaranteed by China, was set to total 2 million metric tons (2.2 million tons) this year and would rise eventually to 15 million metric tons.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/10/us-kazakhstan-railway-idUSBRE9590GH20130610
Somewhere, alone, a Straits pirate cries bitter tears.
BUT German muslim terrorist cells are whooping for joy at the thought of derailing a rail convoy.. and maybe a few french, belgian and dutch cells as well.. the spanish and portuguese cells maybe more subdued..
The Austrian, Serb, Croatian and Albanian cells may be much interested..
The germans are going to discover a lot of new chinese wandering around on their streets.
Every silver lining has a dark cloud...
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