Prime-Tass English-language Business Newswire
November 3, 2004
Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan to restore railway traffic
MOSCOW, Nov 3 (Prime-Tass) — Russia, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan
have approved restoring through traffic along the Caucasus railway,
Russia’s Transportation Ministry Igor Levitin said at a briefing
Wednesday.
Through traffic was interrupted in August 1992 following the
Georgian-Abkhazia conflict.
The through traffic is to be organized by the national railway
operators of each country, Levitin said
The state-owned company Russian Railways is to act as the operator for
Russia, he added.
Levitin also said that building bridges for some stretches of the
railway might be necessary, as well as relaying 200 kilometers of
track. He did not elaborate. End