TURNING ARMENIA INTO TRANSIT COUNTRY LINKING EUROPE AND ASIA CONSIDERED PRIORITY TASK BY SOUTH CAUCASUS RAILWAYS CJSC
Noyan Tapan
Oct 21, 2009
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 21, NOYAN TAPAN. The priority task of South Caucasus
Railways CJSC is to turn Armenia into a transit country linking Europe
and Asia, Director General of the company Shevket Shaydullin said
at the October 21 press conference. "Our task is to enter and take
the Europe-Caucasus-Asia transit corridor, we have already discussed
this issue with both the president and the prime minister of Armenia,"
he stated.
He announced that a new logistical center with a carrying capacity of
70 coaches will open at Akhurian Station in a month. The strategy of
South Caucasus Railways is to develop logistical centers to help the
Armenian railway enter the international arena. As regards creation
of international logistical centers, according to S. Shaydullin,
the search of investors is underway. "In light of the prospects of
transit routes, the issue of constructing a new Fioletovo-Vanadzor
branch line is currently being discussed," he said.
In the words of S. Shaydullin, South Caucasus Railways actively
cooperates with Georgian Railways to ensure complex freight traffic.
It is noteworthy that the company has already launched complex freight
traffic operations from the Netherlands and Germany.