Not quite round the world, but at nearly 13,000km, not doing badly at all. On 10 December, a train carrying Christmas retail goods in 40 containers arrived in Madrid, Spain, 21 days after leaving the east China manufacturing city of Yiwu. This was 10 days faster than sea freight, achieved at a tenth
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