It's delivered 32 containers filled with products delivered from the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang.

 

The 14-day trip covers some 95-hundred kilometers through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

 

The monthly train delivery cuts around 30-days off ocean deliveries from Shanghai to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.

 

The train set off from Zhejiang just days after sanctions against Tehran were lifted following the completion of its nuclear accord, and just a month after a visit to Tehran by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

 

During his time there, Xi Jinping and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani laid-out a goal of forging economic ties worth 600 billion US dollars a year in the next 10 years.

 

More than one-third of Iran's foreign trade is with China.

 

China is Tehran's top customer for oil exports.