December 21, 2019

The Uzbek Railways company plans to launch transit trains to Azerbaijan and Georgia by the spring of 2020.

The first multilateral meeting of the leaders of railway agencies of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan on the development of the international multimodal route was held in Tashkent

The launch of a test transit container train, as part this project, is scheduled for the first quarter of 2020.

During the meeting, the parties established common transit tariff rates and conditions for the transportation of goods, and discussed the logistics infrastructure and also agreed to create a coordination committee including the heads of railway authorities of the participating countries, chaired by the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan.

In December 2017, the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev approved the program of diversification of foreign trade routes for the transportation of goods for period of 2018-2022. It involves transit traffic on the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway line.

The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway was opened in October 2017 following the Azerbaijani-Georgian-Turkish interstate agreement. At the initial stage, the volume of freight transportation will be at 6.5 million tons of cargo. It is planned to carry up to a million passengers a year.

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