Azerbaijan continues the capital overhaul 600-km Baku-Boyuk Kesik line (Georgian border), a part of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway project.
According to Azerbaijan Railways, the work is currently underway in the 9 km length Garabujag-Kurdamir section. Dismantlement of the old road has already been launched. The maintenance operations, which are planned to last one week, are being carried out by Specialized Railway Enterprise LLC No. 5.
Until now, 230 km of the line was overhauled. The reconstruction work is expected to increase the average speed of trains on the route up to 140 km per hour.
In 2013, Azerbaijani Railway completed the repair of 317 kilometers on the route Baku – Boyuk Kesik. The complete overhaul of the Baku-Boyuk Kesik section was implemented under the State Program on the railway system development in Azerbaijan for 2010-2014.
Being constructed under a Georgian-Azerbaijani-Turkish intergovernmental agreement, BTK will have a capacity of 412,000 tons of freight a year. The construction work has already been completed by almost 95 percent. Turkey Minister of Transport Ahmad Arslan has announced that the railway project will be completed in the first half of 2017. On Turkey’s territory there are 79 km of BTK line, while 58 km accounts for the Kars province.
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