Dhaka - Istanbul Container Rail Service by the end of 2017

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From the Financial Express:

Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu led Indian Railways is going to run a trans-continental container train full of goods from Dhaka to Istanbul, which would cover a 6,000-km journey across five countries – Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey. It is codenamed as ITI-DKD-Y corridor, the route the container train will follow will be Dhaka-Kolkata-Delhi-Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul. Eventually, Yangon will also be connected to Dhaka after the missing Tamu-Kalay link in Myanmar is completed.
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The total distance is over 6,000km and involves one gauge change at Zahedan in Iran

The full article can be viewed at: http://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/indian-railways-cements-whopping-6000-km-bangladesh-india-pakistan-turkey-trans-continental-train-run-demo-soon/573342/
 
Just-Thinking-51 said:
In short this new service is to keep the marine shipping companies honest?

So many huge containers ship to choose from.
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Surprisingly, the rail service is going to be considerably faster than a typical container ship from Dhaka/Pyara/Kolkata/Haldia ports to Istanbul. The distance that a ship has to traverse is apparently considerably longer than the train, and the train can theoretically at least run at a faster speed. As for what will actually happen is another matter, specially through Pakistan/Balochistan.
 

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