The Sino-Russian Hunchun-Makharino Railway carries Chinese export for the first time in its regular operation of its Asia-Pacific sea-land intermodal service.
The first load consisted of 6 containers of mineral water from Jilin province's Yanbian Nongshim Mineral Beverage Company Limited, totalling 103 tonnes going to Russia's Zarubino port first, 60 kilometers from Hunchun.
The rest of the freight was then taken on the Hunchun-Makharino Railway to South Korea via the Hunchun-Zarubino-Sokcho line, the Xinlanhai, which provides the shortest route between northeast China, the Russian Far East and South Korea.
The Hunchun-Makharino Railway resumed operation in August 2013 after closing for 9 years. But it only provided cargo import service without exports.