On September 28th, the first «Shanghai» train, carrying 50 containers full of clothing, shoes, hats, glassware, auto parts, precision instruments and other goods, left Shanghai all the way to the west, through the Xinjiang Alashankou Port, bound for Hamburg.
The Red Sea crisis was a new challenge for maritime shipping, which begs the question of whether the maritime shipping market will be able to adapt to new circumstances or whether the unstable situation in the Red Sea will push shippers to switch to rail transport.
On account of strategic position of Central Asian countries between Europe and Asia, the European Union is becoming ever more actively interested in a stable partnership with the countries of Central Asia, and seeks to develop relations not only with Central Asia as a whole, but also with each individual state in the region