TransContainer and Kedentransservice have launched a block train service from China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to Russia. The first train carrying 82 twenty-foot containers of goods including tomato paste took six days to cover the 3 783 km from Kuitun to Anisovka in the Saratov region, where it arrived on 5 March, including reloading and customs clearance at Dostyk.