Estonian rail cargo operator EVR Cargo hopes to join the North-South Transport Corridor which connects the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Persia and plans to send the first test train in September 2017, but has yet to agree on the exact route. “We basically have concords and would like to send out the first test train in September,” CEO of EVR Cargo Raul Toomsalu said.
The principal advantage of the North-South Transport Corridor in comparison with other transport routes is that it will substantially reduce costs in terms of time and money. While shipping goods from the Persian Gulf to Helsinki through the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean takes 40 to 60 days, it would only take 20-25 days via the North-South Corridor.
EVR Cargo announced that it was negotiating to join the project in November last year. “Estonian Railways will join the North-South project. This will enable freight to be moved from northern Europe and Scandinavia via the port of Paldiski through Russia to Azerbaijan and from there on to Iran and other Gulf states,” deputy chairman of Azerbaijan Railways Igbal Huseynov said at that point.
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