SCR and Georgian railway intended to increase the quality of transport services

YEREVAN, March 26. /ARKA/. CJSC `South-Caucasian Railway’ and Georgian
railway develop joint measures of transport services quality increase.

In the frames of the meeting on March 22-23 representatives of SCR and
`Georgian railway’ Ltd on the head of General Director Shevket
Shaydullin and Irakli Ezugbaya discussed broad specter of issues
related to cargo and passengers transportation, information and
communication technologies in Tbilisi.

SCR and `Georgian railway’ made appointments on the creation of
working group which will deal with marketing analysis and definition
of measures for the increase of cargo flow between Georgia and
Armenia.

The main topic of the meeting became organization of upcoming seasonal
route `Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan’.

The parties agreed on sale of tickets by `round trip’ for passengers
train `Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan’.

Special attention was paid to the issue of time reduction of route
Yerevan-Tbilisi.

Managers of the companies mentioned the importance of experience and
information exchange with the aim of strengthening of further
cooperation, creation of equal access and competition for both parties
and quality increase of transport services.

Concession management of `Armenian railway’ is implemented by CJSC
`South Caucasian Railway’ which is 100% affiliate of Open JSC `Russian
Railway’. SCR accepted the railway stock of CJSC `Armenian railway’ on
its balance from June 1, 2008 according to Concession Agreement signed
on February 13, 2008. The terms of concession management is for 30
years with the right of prolongation for another 10 years. –0–

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress