China has launched a new rail and road cargo service connecting Lanzhou, capital of northwest China’s Gansu Province, with Islamabad in Pakistan. The first train carrying 30 carriages of mechanical equipment, auto parts and daily necessities left a logistics center on the 24th of October 2018 Lanzhou, bound for Kashgar in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. From there the goods will be transported to Islamabad by a highway
Luo Zhe, deputy director with the management committee of the International Land Port of Gansu (Lanzhou), the 4,500-km trip will take 13 days, around 15 days less than the traditional sea route.
This is the second freight train service launched by Gansu to south Asia. In 2016, a rail and road cargo service opened between Lanzhou and Kathmandu, Nepal
