Railway transport to Turkey (Xi 'an - Izmit) on the Central Europe Railway route

1. Traditional shipping: major ports in China-through the Strait of Malacca-across the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Suez Canal and Mediterranean Sea-transit or direct to Turkish ports

This route, most shipping companies have services, such as Maersk (MSK), COSCO (COSCO), Evergreen (EMC), Hapag-Lloyd (HPL), CMA CMA (CMA) and so on. (Here we mainly talk about containerized cargo transportation)

2. Air freight: major international airports in China-direct or transit-Istanbul Airport (IST),

There are many airlines serving this route, such as Turkish Airlines TK, Emirates EK, Qatar Airways QR, Iran Airlines W5 and so on.

3. New type of railway train transportation: Xi'an Inland Port-Horgos-Aktau-Baku-Kars-Izmit

This route is newly opened. It is currently scheduled to run in January. In the future, according to the stability of the route, the number of flights will be increased.

Of course, from Turkey back to China, the above routes can also be considered in reverse.

Timeliness of the Xi'an-Turkey line:

Departing from Xi’an Xinzhu Station, passing through Khorgos Port, to Aktau Port by ship to Baku, and finally to Izmit, Izmit and Halkali in Turkey. 

The estimated time limit for the whole process is 14 days. The goods can reach Bulgaria, Ukraine, Serbia, Italy, Spain, Egypt, France, Greece and other places.