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Departure log: real China–Iran shipment records

This page records selected departures on this line. It states only what already happened: the date, the consolidation hub, the cargo, the exit line, the destination customs, and whether the load moved on a direct or a transshipment truck. Once a load is delivered, the actual day count from the Wuqia crossing is added to its entry.

Strapped pallets loaded on a curtainsider trailer
Loaded and ready to depart

The record

How to read it

The count starts at Wuqia. The published ranges on this line are: a direct truck is currently 21–23 days to Tehran and 18–21 days to Mashhad; a transshipment truck is 26–30 and 24–28 days respectively. All of those are measured from the Wuqia crossing and exclude the domestic leg. An individual load will land above or below the range, which is exactly why we write "currently" and never "guaranteed".

The Khorgos line carries no day figure. There is no published transit time for the Kazakhstan routing, so those entries show the departure only and the transit time is quote on request.

"Direct" means one transload, not none. A direct truck is transloaded once, at Bukhara. A transshipment truck is transloaded at Osh and at Bukhara, sometimes with a further transload at the Iranian border.

The photos are real, and they are edited. They come from actual operations. Before publication we remove licence plates, faces, and anything that would identify whose goods are on the trailer.

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