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Chongqing-Kyiv first direct freight railway route launched
KYIV. Sept 1 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The direct freight traffic connected the Chinese city of Chongqing and Kyiv on August 29, a freight train with 50 containers of industrial equipment set off for the first time on this route between the cities, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
According to the schedule, the train will cross the state border through the Erenhot border crossing of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China and will arrive in Kyiv in the middle of September.
Prior to that, export deliveries from Chongqing to Ukraine were carried out in transit through the territory of Belarus or Poland.
"The new railway route, providing direct supplies of goods from Chongqing to Kyiv, will facilitate trade links between the western part of China and Europe," the agency said.
Chongqing is one of the key centers of rail freight traffic on the China-Europe routes. According to local authorities, in the first half of 2021, the Yuxinou (Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe) railway, which is the first China-Europe freight train route, sent 1,360 freight trains, which is over 50% more than a year earlier.
