Marat Karabayev, the Minister of Transport of Kazakhstan, participated in the ceremony marking the departure of the 150th container train “Tian-Shan” along the China-EU route, this is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply.

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During the event, it was announced that around 85,000 container trains have been sent from China to European countries since 2013, with 80% of them transiting through Kazakhstan.

Source: Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan.

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