❗️First Iranian export train departs Qom for China Iran has launched its first export freight train from the city of Qom to China, while 460 tons of sodium chlorate were shipped by rail from Semnan province to Turkiye, as Tehran seeks to expand its export routes. Amid growing restrictions on maritime transport, rail freight shipments from China to Iran have increased tenfold, while the frequency of Chinese trains arriving in Iran has risen from one every three to four days to one daily, Fars News Agency reports.