OREANDA-NEWS. August 15, 2016. Successfully proceeded the container train from China to Turkey through railway border crossing Altynkol – Khorgos.       

At the Altynkol station the container train was overloaded for 3 hours 10 minutes, instead of the established normative time of 3 hours 55 minutes.

40-foot containers overloaded on the dry port SEZ "Khorgos - Eastern Gate" with three 50-ton shear legs RMG and two reach stackers RS.

All the infrastructure and staffs of the Altynkol station and dry port SEZ "Khorgos - Eastern Gate" are prepared to handle large cargo. What makes it easier to process trains coming from the narrow gauge (1,435 mm) to the wide (1520mm), including customs clearance.

In general, it seems the positive dynamics in the development of container transit through the Altynkol station and dry port SEZ "Khorgos - Eastern Gate". Through the Altynkol station 22 container trains passed last year and for the 7 months of this year already was followed 51 container trains. Earlier transit trains plied mainly on the direction of Central Asia - Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, but now will be pass for other destinations.