{"id":6674,"date":"2016-08-29T12:59:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T11:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6674"},"modified":"2016-08-29T13:01:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T12:01:15","slug":"china-to-afghanistan-freight-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/china-to-afghanistan-freight-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Another China to Afghanistan freight train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You wait for ages, then two China to Afghanistan freight services start at once.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Freight train now links E China&#39;s Yiwu, famous for small commodities, to Afghanistan <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lvvE6qd9z7\">https:\/\/t.co\/lvvE6qd9z7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g9HWrSTSGV\">pic.twitter.com\/g9HWrSTSGV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; China Xinhua News (@XHNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XHNews\/status\/769877604241399813\">August 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This second service set off from Yiwu in eastern China&#8217;s Zhejiang Province on August 28, carrying 100 containers of goods worth more than US$4m. The 7500 km journey to Mazar-i-Sharif via Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan was expected to take 15 days. A weekly service is planned by the end of the year.<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-6674-1' id='fnref-6674-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(6674)'>1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The contaners are carried on flat wagons, rather than open wagons as with the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/first-china-to-afghanistan-freight-train\/\">train from Nantong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-6674'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-6674-1'> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2016-08\/28\/c_135640110.htm\">First freight train linking Yiwu to Afghanistan departs<\/a>, Xinhua, 28 August 2016 <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-6674-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wait for ages, then two China to Afghanistan freight services start at once. Freight train now links E China&#39;s Yiwu, famous for small commodities, to Afghanistan https:\/\/t.co\/lvvE6qd9z7 pic.twitter.com\/g9HWrSTSGV &mdash; China Xinhua News (@XHNews) August 28, 2016 This second service set off from Yiwu in eastern China&#8217;s Zhejiang Province on August 28, carrying 100 containers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40,64,114,307],"class_list":["post-6674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-china","tag-freight","tag-mazar-i-sharif","tag-yiwu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6700,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}