By Erwin Reidinger, International Railway Journal; April 30, 2018
A ceremony was held at Vienna South container terminal on April 27 to mark the arrival of the first intermodal freight train from Chengdu after a 14-day journey on the 9800km route from China.
The train transported 44 containers filled with consumer goods, leaving Chengdu on April 12 and travelling to Khorgos at the Kazakhstan border where containers were transferred to 1520mm-gauge wagons. The train then continued via Saratov, Russia, and Kiev, Ukraine, to Dobra on the Ukrainian-Slovakian border where the containers were transferred to standard-gauge wagons before continuing to Vienna via Bratislava, arriving on April 26. In Vienna, the containers were either transferred to other trains or lorries to continue their onward journey.
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