Photo de stock - 12 November 2019, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Sassnitz: Grass and weeds grow on the tracks of the Russian broad gauge in the port of Mukran. The wide-gauge network built in the GDR era was used for loading and unloading railway ferries with Russian freight wagons. The port on Rügen is now to become part of the Chinese Silk Road Initiative. For the first time on the entire route between Germany and China, part of the journey will be by sea between the ports of Mukran and Baltysk in the Kaliningrad region. A ship with the first 41 containers of a test train, which had started at the beginning of November in Xi'an in central China, was unloaded in Mukran. Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB. - Sassnitz/Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania/Germany