Ukrainian first pilot container train running via New Silk Road expected back from China on March 15-18

18:33, 18.02.2016 1 min read

The first pilot container train that left Ukraine on January 15 for China, via the so-called New Silk Road, is expected to return on March 15-18, Oleksandr Zavhorodniy, the Acting Director General of Ukrzaliznytsia, has said.

"The train will return on March 15-18. This will highlight all the issues for us, including the logistics, etc.," he said at a meeting of the Council of Exporters and Investors under the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in Kyiv.

It was reported earlier that on January 15, 2016 Ukraine's Ministry of Infrastructure and Ukrzaliznytsia launched the joint project of a pilot container train traveling via a new Silk Road.

The dry run of the new container train via Ukraine-Georgia-Azerbaijan-Kazakhstan-China (across the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea) ended in the early hours of January 31, 2016, on the 16th day of the journey.