Azerbaijan has joined the international railway project Viking Train, which will enable to up the country’s trade and transport potential.
Companies involved in the project met in Baku to discuss several issues as the final works on the train’s operation, the prospects for developing and expanding the piggyback train project, the tariff terms for 2017, the tariffs for export and import operations and the additional services.
Representatives of Azerbaijan Railways, ADY Express Ltd., railway agencies of Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, as well as, the rail freight carriers from Bulgaria and Romania, and other operators of the project took part in the meeting.
Azerbaijan’s participation in the Viking project will extend the container train route to more distant Asian countries by providing an alternative route to reach Kazakhstan and China, as well as, more freight will be transported to the Baltic region from Kazakhstan and China, and the new Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway will be used to transport containers from Turkey to Ukrainian ports.
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