Drive with a train from China to Turkey, as this article claims a rail-link exist since 2020. You will just have to …
- pass through some of the most sanctioned countries on earth (either Iran or russia)
- I assume: go through some gauge change 🛤️
- pass through countries that hate each other if you want to sell to europe for a profit (Turkey vs. Greece, Russia vs. Ukraine)
- trust on each of the N nations the rail passes through to not increase tariffs/fees until it gets unprofitable
Lmao, do you think that can be a success?
This already exists and has demonstrated success, and does not pass through Russia or Iran. The Upper Corridor passed through Russia, but since the Ukraine invasion, much of it’s trade has moved to the Middle Corridor. Greece and Turkey don’t particularly like each other, but still have good trade relations and movement across their borders
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Caspian_International_Transport_Route
yeah but to avoid Russia & Iran you need to cross the Caspian sea by boat, which is not optimal for costs and profit-margins I assume. Train needs to be unloaded, containers wait in port (Turkmenistan or Kazakhstan I assume) until ship is loaded …
Costs compared to what? Loading up a ship on the Pacific coast and sending it around Indonesia and through the Suez canal and then unloading it in Europe and putting the cargo on trains there to the final destination?
Compared to drive with the train on rail without unloading/stopping? Mode change is expensive. So ideally once Iran is liberated the train would just drive from Central Asia to Turkey through Iran without stopping.
The Trans Iranian Railways are already built, but not in use to transport goods from central asia to turkey as far as I understand.
