A new international terminal for the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway is being built in the Turkish province of Kars. In addition, the construction of a logistics center in Kars continues.
The BTK railway is being constructed on the basis of the Georgian-Azerbaijani-Turkish intergovernmental agreement.
Eighty seven percent of the BTK railway has been constructed in Turkey, Ahmet Arslan, Turkish minister of transport, shipping and communications, said earlier. The peak capacity of the railway will be 17 million tons of cargo per year.
The Baku- Tbilisi- Kars Railway is a new corridor that will connect Azerbaijan, Georgian and Turkish railways. This project will effectively open a new rail-only corridor from the Caspian Sea to Europe via Turkey, eventually excluding the need for sea transportation once the planned rail tunnel under the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul is complete (the world’s first three-level tunnel to be built under the Bosporus). The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project could also open a North-South rail corridor linking Russia to Turkey. This line will transport both freight and passengers and is expected to provide an alternative freight transport route to routes that transit through Iran.
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