The test shipment departed the Azerbaijani capital Baku for Kazakhstan on January 23. The freight left Ukraine`s Illichivsk port eight days earlier, before crossing the Black and Caspian Seas via Georgia.
The entire cargo is made up of 20, 40-foot containers. That`s according to China`s Xinhua news agency.
The establishment of some preferential trade tariffs between countries on the route have been agreed.
This route was launched in January after Moscow imposed a ban on goods from Ukraine travelling through Russia. The measures were introduced in reaction to the introduction of Ukraine`s free-trade agreement with the European Union on January 1, 2016
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