After the eleven months of operation, InterRail has reported an increase in its train service from the port of Vostochny in Far East Russia to the station of Chukursai in Uzbekistan, a joint project with Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company.
The service launched in March 2018 registers growing demand and has successfully passed the trial phase. The connection has already been extended to include a third block train, so that now a departure can be offered every ten days in both directions, and InterRail is planning to launch a fourth departure.
Imports to Uzbekistan are mainly equipment for the automobile industry, car parts, household goods, resins and many more. Export goods are cotton yarn and cotton pulp, textiles, copper, cellulose, fertilizers, etc.
So far, more than 2400 TEU have been carried in both directions. The transit time is between eleven and twelve days.
According to InterRail, demand for this train service increasingly comes from Asian countries such as South Korea, China, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia.