Uzbekistan Railways plans to launch transit trains to Azerbaijan and Georgia before spring 2020, it was announced in Tashkent at a meeting on the development of an international multimodal route between the railway authorities of Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.
The launch of a pilot transit container train along the multimodal route is planned in Q1 of 2020, the company’s in a statement following the meeting.
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 Q1 of 2018, it was planned to begin pilot transit traffic along the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway line. It was opened in October 2017 following the Azerbaijani-Georgian-Turkish interstate agreement. According to its participants, at the initial stage, the volume of freight transportation will be at 6.5 million tons of cargo, with up to one million passengers to be transported.
