Long-awaited construction of railway from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan aiming to boost the cooperation in the transport sphere is getting finalized. The construction of a new railway from the Turkmen town of Atamyrat to the Afghan settlement of Akina is under completion, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported.
„Turkmen builders are completing the construction of the Atamyrat-Imamnazar section, constructing the railway through the Turkmen-Afghan border, as well as the railway through a small five-kilometer-area from the Turkmen border settlement of Imamnazar to Akina”.
The new railway must connect the Afghan section of Akina-Andkhoy with Atamyrat-Imamnazar section in Turkmenistan and Panj district in Tajikistan.
Two Gulistan and Imamnazar railway stations, two large bridges over the Turkmen Karakum canal are being built as part of the project.
The area is part of the transnational railway project along the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan route (TAT). The completion of the construction of the railway and installation work is scheduled for early November 2016.
It is expected that the transportation corridor passing through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, will have an access to China’s extensive rail network and through it – to the rapidly developing states of the Asia-Pacific region.
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