TWO-THIRDS OF BAKU-TBILISI-KARS TO BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION BY OCTOBER
By M. Alkhazashvili (Translated by Diana Dundua)
Messenger.ge, Georgia
Wednesday, September 12, 2007, #173 (1440)
Construction of the Georgian and Turkish sections of the
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railroad will start in October, a representative
of Azerbaijan’s Transport Ministry said.
Companies have bid on the building contract, writes the news agency
Regnum, with the results to be announced at the end of September.
In Georgia, a 29-kilometer-long new railway section will be built in
addition to the repair of the 160-kilometer Marabda-Akhalkalaki route.
In February an agreement was signed between Georgia, Azerbaijan and
Armenia regarding Baku-Tbilisi-Karsi railway construction.
On the basis of this contract Azerbaijan allotted a USD 200 million
credit to the Georgian firm in charge of building this country’s
portion of the railroad, to pay for construction and repairs.