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Iran receives first China cargo shipment via Kazakhstan

19 January 2019

This is the first time China exported its commodities via land to Iran through the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan to be later sent by sea, Trend reports citing IRNA.

The first cargo shipment sent from the far-eastern China has made its way to Iran through Kazakhstan.

The cargo that includes bicycle and industrial machinery parts, wallpaper, brake pads, among other items, was sent from the Ningbo Port in the East China Sea on December 18. It was put on freight trains towards the Khorgos on the border with Kazakhstan.

The shipment continued its journey through the Kazakh territory via railroad to Port of Aktau on the eastern bank of the Caspean Sea. From there, it was loaded into 42 containers on Diba bulk carrier heading for the Caspin Port in Anzali Free Zone.

This is the first cargo that arrives in from the eastern-most part of China through the Kazakhstan corridor. Previous shipments used to be sent via the Indian Ocean arriving at the southern Iranian Port of Bandar Abbas in the Persian Gulf.

Ningbo is a city in the northeast of Jijiang Province of China, 25 kilometers east of the Sea of China as one of the most important industrial and commercial ports of the country. It is considered as a small sample of Shanghai in the Chinese economy and its port has been ranked second in terms of operational capability in commercial shipments.

The capacity of the multi-modal transit route is estimated to be at 10 million tons of cargo. It also cuts short both the distance and the costs incurred.

Anzali is Iran's only free zone in the north and connects the country to the Commeanwealth of Independent States (CIS), Russia and other Caspean Sea nations.

'This is a great opportunity for Iran,' Said Mostafa Salari, governor of the norther Iranian Gilan Province, who received the ship accompanied by local officials and some lawmakers.

'The Caspian Port in Anzali is exempt from the problems that southern coasts are facing,' added Salari, referring to the difficulties in port use and other maritime services that have been caused by renewed US sanctions on Iran when Donald Trump Administration walked out of the 2015 international nuclear treaty with Iran.

The Caspea Sea is shared by Russia, Kazakhistan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, all of which have reiterated their support for the nuclear deal in the face of the unilateral US sanctions that went into effect last November.

The Iranian official said he hopes cargo transit through this new route increases so Tehran can upgrade its foreing trade.

https://en.trend.az/iran/business/3008007.html
 
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Why can not they use route for Afganistan/Pakistan to Iran??? Is it not cost effective??
 
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This is not the same route.
The route described in your article goes through Kazachstan and Turkmenistan.
The route described in the article which I posted only goes through Kazachstan.
need several time loading and unloading the cargo , cant see the point of it. just load it in trains and send it from land ,give you far less trouble .
 
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need several time loading and unloading the cargo , cant see the point of it. just load it in trains and send it from land ,give you far less trouble .

I also did not understand why they used this route.

Maybe because Anzali is a free economic zone.

'Anzali is Iran's only free zone in the north'

This would probably mean lower taxes and it might then be cheaper than the land route.
 
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Indo-US plan to contain China doesn't seem to be working. China is opening up a new route every other year.
 
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need several time loading and unloading the cargo , cant see the point of it. just load it in trains and send it from land ,give you far less trouble .

Before the advent of container shipment this was definitely true. However current container shipment methods make unloading and loading onto different forms of transport easy and convenient. Todays containers RFD system carry information of its contents, customs information, location point of departure and destination. When a crane picks up a container it can be wirelesly interrogated about all that information. Containers are standardised across the world to fit all forms of transport.
 
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need several time loading and unloading the cargo , cant see the point of it. just load it in trains and send it from land ,give you far less trouble .

exploring new way!
actually the railway width is different, still need loading unloading several times by train.
 
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exploring new way!
actually the railway width is different, still need loading unloading several times by train.
still , this route needs those loading and unloading and then add to it.
by the way I wonder , if the rail road was not financed by china several years ago? If you wanted to use the rail rod to trade with middle east and central asia why not insisted they build it according to china rail road gauge which is international Standard Gauge, not the one that USSR used because of cold war era concerns ?

Before the advent of container shipment this was definitely true. However current container shipment methods make unloading and loading onto different forms of transport easy and convenient. Todays containers RFD system carry information of its contents, customs information, location point of departure and destination. When a crane picks up a container it can be wirelesly interrogated about all that information. Containers are standardised across the world to fit all forms of transport.
still at least take one day or more to load and unload a big ship
well maybe more
Drewry did an analysis of vessel turnaround times. Before the dispute, in Q3 of 2014, the average vessel turnaround at Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex for an average container vessel - 6,086 TEU - was 2.5 to 3 days. During Q4 of 2014, the average turnaround time doubled to more than 5 days.
 
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still , this route needs those loading and unloading and then add to it.
by the way I wonder , if the rail road was not financed by china several years ago? If you wanted to use the rail rod to trade with middle east and central asia why not insisted they build it according to china rail road gauge which is international Standard Gauge, not the one that USSR used because of cold war era concerns ?


still at least take one day or more to load and unload a big ship
well maybe more

the China-Tajikestan-Iran railway plan was stopped by Russia.
 
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