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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
XI'AN, January 2 (Xinhua) — The first China-Europe train of 2026 departed from Xi'an International Port Station, the capital of Northeast China's Shaanxi Province, on Thursday. The train, operating along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), will cross the border at Khorgos, travel through Kazakhstan and the Caspian Sea, and arrive in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
This train, fully loaded with 45 containers of photovoltaic modules, is not only the first China-Europe train departure in 2026, but also the first train to depart from China on the TITR in 2026.
"The China-Europe (Xi'an) train has created a convenient international logistics channel for cargo transportation, and compared to traditional sea freight, it reduces transit time from two months to 11 days. This has significantly reduced logistics costs for enterprises," said Du Ning, an employee of the Northwest Electric Power Design Institute of China Power Engineering Consulting Group (CPECC), a subsidiary of China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC).
Xi'an is actively involved in the construction of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route and is working with relevant parties to continuously promote cost reduction and efficiency improvements. Train departures along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route are currently increasing in frequency, and transit times have been reduced from 15-23 days to approximately 11 days.
In 2019, the first train was launched from Xi'an on the TITR, and as of the end of November 2025, a total of 466 trains had been operated from Xi'an on this route.
According to the data of the state-owned corporation China Railways (CR), in January-November 2025, the total number of freight train departures from Xi'an along the China-Europe international railway freight transportation routes reached 5,671, an increase of 20.5 percent year-on-year. -0-
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