KARSI-AKHALKALAKI RAILWAY WILL BE CONSTRUCTED ON SCHEDULE

The Messenger
Dec 23 2009
Georgia

The JSC Azerbaijani Railways Chief Engineer Kurban Nazirov thinks
that work on the construction of the Karsi-Akhalkalaki segment of
the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway will be undertaken according to the
schedule. The Akhalkalaki railway station will be built between 2010
and 2011 by Azeri company Kontur.

The construction of Karsi-Akhalkalaki railway line was already
underway at the time of the 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia, which
was followed by the attempts to reconcile Turkey and Armenia and open
their mutual borders. These events triggered speculation that the
existing Karsi-Gumri (Armenia) railway might be reopened, undermining
the building of the Karsi-Akhalkalaki track. However developments
have made clear that this construction is still on the agenda.