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Rail Freight from China — Container Block Trains

Rail is the backbone of the Silk Road. We move 20ft and 40ft containers, boxcars and open wagons through the Khorgos, Alashankou and Dostyk border crossings — two to three times faster than ocean and roughly half the cost of air.

China → Tashkent

from 18 days

Minimum lot

from 1 m³ (LCL)

Departures

weekly

Rail Freight

Why Silk Gate

Direct block trains

Dedicated slots on scheduled trains from Xi'an, Chengdu, Urumqi and Lianyungang — no waiting for the train to fill up.

Locked-in rate

Rates are insulated from seasonal freight spikes: the contract price holds for the whole transit.

FCL and LCL

Full container or groupage from a single cubic metre, consolidated at our Guangzhou warehouse.

Border-crossing control

Our own agents at Khorgos and Dostyk speed up bogie exchange and customs transit.

What the service covers

  1. 01Pickup from the factory in any Chinese province
  2. 02Export clearance and container loading
  3. 03Rail freight and confirmed train slot
  4. 04Transit declaration at the border crossing
  5. 05Transfer to 1520 mm gauge and delivery to destination station
  6. 06Last-mile delivery to the consignee's warehouse

Frequently asked

Not covered here? Ask us directly — we reply within one working hour.

How much cheaper is rail than air?

Typically 4–6 times cheaper, while adding only 8–12 days versus air. For goods with a turnover cycle longer than two weeks, rail is almost always the better economics.

What happens at the China–Kazakhstan border?

The gauge changes from 1435 mm to 1520 mm, so containers are transhipped onto different flatcars. This normally takes 1–3 days; we monitor the queue and keep you updated on status.

Can I ship groupage without a full container?

Yes. We consolidate groupage from 1 m³ or 100 kg at our Guangzhou warehouse and dispatch weekly inside a shared container.

10Enquiry

Tell us about the cargo — we come back with a quote in 2 hours

Describe the lane and the nature of the goods. We will propose 2–3 schemes with a full breakdown and a door-to-door transit time.

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