The longest rail freight connection in the world, linking Yiwu in eastern China’s Zhejiang province to Madrid, will have stops in Warsaw, Berlin, Duisburg and Paris on a journey of over 13,000 kilometers set to begin on 28 June.
The first freight train to link China directly with Spain made its 21-day maiden journey in late 2014. Since then, four trains have made the journey from China to Spain and two have traveled in the opposite direction, transporting 304 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) shipping containers.
The Yiwu-Madrid train is the longest rail route in the world, longer than Russia’s Trans-Siberian railway linking Moscow with Vladivostok.
The journey time is more than 10 days shorter than if the goods are shipped by sea, according to Spain’s Public Works Ministry.
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