The first Agroexpress train, dispatched from Russia to India, will transit through Turkmenistan, as announced in the press service of Russian Railways (RZD) on Thursday.
This train, organized by the logistics operator of Russian Railways, RZD Logistics, and Dry Port Yuzhnouralsky LLC, consists of oat flakes and cereal.
According to the announcement, 31 twenty-foot containers loaded with oat flakes from the Russian manufacturer Uvelka departed from Formachyovo station (South Ural Railway) to Sarakhs station in Turkmenistan.
Subsequently, the containers will transit through Iran to the port of Bandar Abbas, and then by sea to the Indian port of Mundra. The planned transit time to the destination port is 35 days.