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    Volume of rail freight traffic on Trans-Caspian route to increase to 5.5 m tons/year

Volume of rail freight traffic on Trans-Caspian route to increase to 5.5 m tons/year

The railway companies of Kazakhstan, Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan have planned  to increase the volume of rail freight traffic on the Trans-Caspian international transport routes to 5.5 million tons of /year. The decision was taken during the meeting of the coordination committee of the Trans-Caspian international transport route, organised in Baku. The companies

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    Iran-Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan railway line operational from December

Iran-Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan railway line operational from December

“Iran-Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan railway will be operational on December 3 in the presence of the presidents of the three countries,” Aneh Mohammad Kouseh-Gharavi, a board member of Islamic Republic of Iran Railway stated in an interview for the local press. Iran has so far spent USD 52.3 million on its section of

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    Huawei wins bid to lead Turkmenistan’s latest integrated railway communications project

Huawei wins bid to lead Turkmenistan’s latest integrated railway communications project

Huawei announced that its GSM-R solution has won the bid for the Turkmenistan Buzhun-Serehtyaka and Bereket-Cilmammet integrated railway communications project, which will soon commence. Following the successful implementation of GSM-R technologies in Turkmenistan’s Turkmenbasy-Ashgabat (east-west) Line and Cilmammet-Buzhun (south-north) Line in 2012, the new project marks another breakthrough of Huawei’s

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Iran-Turkmenistan agree to increase rail transit to 3.5 million tons

Director General of Transportation and Terminals in Razavi Khorasan province said an agreement has been signed between Iran and Turkmenistan to increase railtransit to 3.5 million tons. Hamid Reza Shahraki Thanavi told reporters on Tuesday that the agreement was signed on Monday in a meeting between Head of Iranˈs Road Maintenance

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Ministry of Railway Transportation of Turkmenistan announces International Tender for the Construction Bereket – Etrek railway line

The Ministry of Railway Transportation of Turkmenistan announces International Tender for the Construction Bereket – Etrek, southern segment of North-South railway. Project Description: Turnkey design, supply and installation of power supply, signaling, telecommunications equipment and administrative and technical buildings. Loan Number: Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Financing Istisna’a) No.: TUR- 0016 & 0017

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