Trans-Caspian express route starts operations

President Xi Jinping and Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev attended on Wednesday the opening ceremony for the China-Europe Trans-Caspian Express, a major international connectivity project that spans the Eurasian region.

The ceremony marked the official completion of a multidimensional connectivity network integrating highways, railways, airlines and pipelines, in order to better link Asia with Europe via the Caspian Sea, which is the world's largest inland body of water.

With its combined highway-sea transportation channel, the express route allows trucks carrying consignments to traverse the Eurasian region aboard cargo vessels.