KMG

Routes

How a car gets from Incheon to you, leg by leg, with the indicative Q4 2026 rate per car and the days we have measured ourselves.

Trunk routes

Dushanbe

Tajikistan
Quoted 26–37 days
Bookable
  1. Incheon → Yantai · Sea1 day
    Container feeder, 2 cars per 45-ft box
  2. Yantai · Transfer13–19 days
    Devanning, transit declaration, waiting for the next train (one about every 15 days)
  3. Yantai → Altynkol · Rail15 days
    Car-carrier wagons via Urumqi and Khorgos
  4. Altynkol · Transfer2 days
    Rail to road car carrier
  5. Altynkol → Dushanbe · Road5 days
Moving
21 days
Observed
42 days
27 Aug → 8 Oct 2026, first 8 cars
Next departure
Rail departs about every 15 days
Freight per car
US$2,370
Indicative Q4 2026 rate card · your shipment gets its own quote

Khujand

Tajikistan
Quoted 26–37 days
Bookable
  1. Incheon → Yantai · Sea1 day
    Container feeder, 2 cars per 45-ft box
  2. Yantai · Transfer13–19 days
    Devanning, transit declaration, waiting for the next train (one about every 15 days)
  3. Yantai → Altynkol · Rail15 days
    Car-carrier wagons via Urumqi and Khorgos
  4. Altynkol · Transfer2 days
    Rail to road car carrier
  5. Altynkol → Khujand · Road4 days
Moving
20 days
Observed
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Next departure
Rail departs about every 15 days
Freight per car
US$2,330
Indicative Q4 2026 rate card · your shipment gets its own quote

Almaty

Kazakhstan
Quoted 19–30 days
Bookable
  1. Incheon → Yantai · Sea1 day
    Container feeder, 2 cars per 45-ft box
  2. Yantai · Transfer13–19 days
    Devanning, transit declaration, waiting for the next train (one about every 15 days)
  3. Yantai → Altynkol · Rail15 days
    Car-carrier wagons via Urumqi and Khorgos
  4. Altynkol · Transfer2 days
    Rail to road car carrier
  5. Altynkol → Almaty · Road1 day
Moving
17 days
Observed
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Next departure
Rail departs about every 15 days
Freight per car
US$1,430
Indicative Q4 2026 rate card · your shipment gets its own quote

Shymkent

Kazakhstan
Quoted 19–30 days
Bookable
  1. Incheon → Yantai · Sea1 day
    Container feeder, 2 cars per 45-ft box
  2. Yantai · Transfer13–19 days
    Devanning, transit declaration, waiting for the next train (one about every 15 days)
  3. Yantai → Altynkol · Rail15 days
    Car-carrier wagons via Urumqi and Khorgos
  4. Altynkol · Transfer2 days
    Rail to road car carrier
  5. Altynkol → Shymkent · Road2 days
Moving
18 days
Observed
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Next departure
Rail departs about every 15 days
Freight per car
US$1,660
Indicative Q4 2026 rate card · your shipment gets its own quote

Altynkol

Kazakhstan · Collect at the border yard
Quoted 16–24 days
Bookable
  1. Incheon → Yantai · Sea1 day
    Container feeder, 2 cars per 45-ft box
  2. Yantai · Transfer13–19 days
    Devanning, transit declaration, waiting for the next train (one about every 15 days)
  3. Yantai → Altynkol · Rail15 days
    Car-carrier wagons via Urumqi and Khorgos
  4. Altynkol · Transfer2 days
    Rail to road car carrier
Moving
16 days
Observed
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Next departure
Rail departs about every 15 days
Freight per car
US$1,180
Indicative Q4 2026 rate card · your shipment gets its own quote

Bishkek

Kyrgyzstan
Quoted 23–34 days
Bookable
  1. Incheon → Yantai · Sea1 day
    Container feeder, 2 cars per 45-ft box
  2. Yantai · Transfer13–19 days
    Devanning, transit declaration, waiting for the next train (one about every 15 days)
  3. Yantai → Altynkol · Rail15 days
    Car-carrier wagons via Urumqi and Khorgos
  4. Altynkol · Transfer2 days
    Rail to road car carrier
  5. Altynkol → Bishkek · Road2 days
Moving
18 days
Observed
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Next departure
Rail departs about every 15 days
Freight per car
US$1,680
Indicative Q4 2026 rate card · your shipment gets its own quote

Osh

Kyrgyzstan
about 17 days moving
Bookable
  1. Incheon → Yantai · Sea1 day
    Container feeder, 2 cars per 45-ft box
  2. Yantai · Transfer13–19 days
    Devanning, transit declaration, waiting for the next train (one about every 15 days)
  3. Yantai → Kashgar · Rail13 days
    Southern Xinjiang line via Turpan and Aksu
  4. Kashgar → Osh · Road3 days
    Over the Torugart pass; route drawn approximately
Moving
17 days
Observed
18 days
6 → 24 Mar 2026, counted from loading on the ship (25 days from container stuffing)
Next departure
Rail departs about every 15 days
Freight per car
US$2,070
Indicative Q4 2026 rate card · your shipment gets its own quote

Tashkent

Uzbekistan
about 19 days moving
Bookable
  1. Incheon → Yantai · Sea1 day
    Container feeder, 2 cars per 45-ft box
  2. Yantai · Transfer13–19 days
    Devanning, transit declaration, waiting for the next train (one about every 15 days)
  3. Yantai → Altynkol · Rail15 days
    Car-carrier wagons via Urumqi and Khorgos
  4. Altynkol · Transfer2 days
    Rail to road car carrier
  5. Altynkol → Tashkent · Road3 days
Moving
19 days
Observed
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Next departure
Rail departs about every 15 days
Freight per car
US$1,970
Indicative Q4 2026 rate card · your shipment gets its own quote

Khalifa Port

United Arab Emirates
about 18 days moving
Quote on request
  1. Incheon → Khalifa Port · Sea18–22 days
    RoRo via Singapore and Hormuz; carrier not yet contracted
Moving
18 days
Observed
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Next departure
Scheduling
Freight per car
Rate being confirmed

What the indicative rate covers

Sea freight Incheon → Yantai (THC exempt), rail to the Kazakh border, unloading at Altynkol, handling, documents and transit customs, road to your city, and insurance for the whole route.

Korean origin charges — collection at M-Park, container loading and port fees in Incheon — are being confirmed and are added to your quote.

Storage at the yard

5 days free at the yard, then US$5 per car per day; US$25 per car per day beyond 30 days.

How the numbers are measured

Quoted days are the forwarder’s Q4 2026 commitment for each city. Moving days add up the legs timed on our own shipments; observed days include the waiting at Yantai. All three are shown so you can plan with any of them.

How shipments are grouped

A car-carrier rail wagon takes about 8–10 cars depending on their length, and a road car carrier takes 8. Trains leave Yantai about every 15 days; a wagon needs at least 2 cars and may carry several customers’ cars together.

Our first shipment, tracked

Ten cars, Incheon to Dushanbe, August to October 2026. Every step below is a recorded date.

10 cars · 5 × 45HC · Incheon → Dushanbe · Xin Xiang Xue Lan, C&K Ferry Lines

DayDatePlaceMilestones
Day 027 Aug 2026IncheonBatch 1 sails Incheon: 3 containers, 6 cars
Day 128 Aug 2026YantaiBatch 1 arrives Yantai port
Day 51 Sept 2026IncheonBatch 2 sails Incheon: 2 containers, 4 cars
Day 51 Sept 2026YantaiBatch 1 devanned under customs supervision
Day 62 Sept 2026YantaiBatch 2 arrives Yantai port
Day 117 Sept 2026YantaiBatch 2 devanned
Day 1915 Sept 2026YantaiAll 10 cars loaded on car-carrier wagons; train departs
Day 3430 Sept 2026AltynkolTrain arrives Altynkol, Kazakhstan; cars unloaded
Day 362 Oct 2026AltynkolTransloaded to road car carriers
Day 362 Oct 2026Altynkol8 cars depart for Dushanbe
Day 417 Oct 2026Dushanbe8 cars arrive Dushanbe
Day 428 Oct 2026DushanbeConsignee signs for 8 cars (day 42)
Day 5117 Oct 2026AltynkolRemaining 2 cars depart Altynkol
Day 5218 Oct 2026DushanbeRemaining 2 cars arrive Dushanbe
Day 5319 Oct 2026DushanbeProvisional sign-off for the last 2 cars (day 53)

Everywhere else

Container or RoRo shipping through a partner forwarder. Published carrier schedules from Incheon run about 18–22 days to the Gulf, 22–26 to East Africa and 28–34 to West Africa; we have not measured these ourselves yet. Ask for a quote and we confirm a sailing.

Chokepoints we watch

If one closes, the globe shows the detour and the extra days.

  • Strait of MalaccaOpen
  • Strait of HormuzOpen
  • Khorgos border crossingOpen
  • Torugart passOpen