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2,000 mile China-Europe rail link
For years it has trundled a slow and solitary path across the vast expanses of the Siberian tundra. But now the Trans-Siberian railway will face its first direct competitor as the overland route from China to Europe when a new railway is built to straddle the steppes of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan announced yesterday that it would complete within four years a 2,000 mile track from China on its eastern border to Europe.
It will cost an estimated .5bn (nearly £2bn) and be able to transport 40bn tonnes of goods a year. After crossing Kazakhstan, itself the size of Western Europe, the railway would either cut south through Iran or cross through Russia, the fastest route to mainland Europe. DGI would welcome any improvement in delivery times for its investment casting products from China
Posted: Friday 16th May 2008
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