Turkey-Hong Kong

Another major project goes ahead - also mainly for the benefit of China. (China is rapidly becoming a major railway power in the world, and all the places to which it is building links may well become part of a new Chinese dominated economic zone). This one of course reaches into the oil rich areas of Central Asia - where the US and other western countries have been hoping their supplies of oil will come from, as the cheap oil age comes to an end.
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=37443

With the construction of the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railway, originally brought to the agenda in 1960, Turkey will become a major transfer route between Asia and Europe.

Regarding the project, scheduled for launch in 2007, Zaman conducted an interview with Turkish Minister of Transport Binali Yildirim, who revealed that Kazakhstan and China have also joined the project.

When completed, the project will be a modern version of the Silk Road, enabling a person in Kars (Turkey) to reach Shanghai or Hong Kong via Kazakhstan.
The project, which will be linked to the Marmaray Project, will permit trains departing from Britain to reach China via Turkey non-stop.

He's talking about freight of course. The Channel Tunnel needs more freight.