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Word: naushahr (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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This week Soviet shipping and trade enter what the Russians hope will be a new era. In the Iranian port of Naushahr, a 4,000-ton Soviet vessel will begin loading for a 4,300-mile voyage to Hamburg, Germany, over a new inland waterway that stretches from the Caspian Sea to the Baltic, ranks as one of the world's longest waterways. The route will cut the average shipping time from Iran to Germany from 50 to 25 days. It will slice 2,700 miles from the previous circuitous route, which took ships through the Atlantic, the Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Boatmen on the Volga | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

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