ILLICHIVSK, Ukraine: Ukraine on Friday launched the first cargo train to China that will bypass Russia along a new “Silk Road” meant to counter the Kremlin’s most stringent trade embargo on Kiev to date, BSS/PTI reported.
“This is a historic event,” Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pyvovarskiy wrote on Facebook.
“Now, Ukraine is not just a potential transit country between the East and West, but one that has finally realised its potential.”
An AFP team near the Black Sea port of Odessa saw the first shipment being loaded onto a train that was then moved to a ferry destined for the former Soviet republic …read more
Source: The Bangladesh Today
