Engineering Service-Putmash, a leading Russian railway infrastructure company, is planning to establish a joint venture in Turkmenistan. The company’s General Director, Egor Lukyanov, announced this intention during the “International Transport and Transit Corridors: Interconnection and Development – 2024” conference. Engineering Service-Putmash is a service company of the Russian Railways (RZD). Lukyanov highlighted the company’s readiness […]
Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to Introduce Competitive Railway Tariffs
The railway administrations of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan held a meeting within the 81st Council for Railway Transport of the CIS member states in Tashkent on 5 November. The bilateral meeting was attended by the Chairman of the Board of Uzbekistan Temir Yullari JSC Z.Narzullaev and Chairman of the Agency of Railways of Turkmenistan Atamuradov Azat. […]
TIF 2024: ADB Commits $625 Million to Turkmenistan’s Development
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has pledged $625 million in investment projects in Turkmenistan, with one project completed and another ongoing. Additionally, the Bank is providing $11 million in technical assistance to strengthen institutions and capacity building, as announced by ADB’s Country Director for Turkmenistan, Artur Andrysiak, during his online presentation at TIF2024 in Ashgabat. […]
Iran’s rail trade with Turkmenistan up 30% at Sarakhs border crossing
1,050,000 tons of goods were transported through Iran’s Sarakhs border crossing with Turkmenistan in the first five months of the current Iranian calendar year (started in March 2024), showing a 30% growth compared with the same period last year, IRNA reports. Nearly 600,000 metric tons of the total foreign trade at the Sarakhs railway border […]
Uzbekistan will privatize railway stations and trains
Uzbekistan is preparing to privatize the railway stations and trains in the public-private format. This will be helpful for the construction, modernization and management of the objects and the trains. The bill is under debate at the lower house of the Uzbek parliament. Podrobno.uz reports that the new bill defines the rights and obligations of […]
China, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran Develop New Transport Route
JSC “Transport and Logistics Center of Turkmenistan” (TULM) and Kazakhstani logistics company JSC “KTZ Express” have successfully piloted a new container train route connecting China, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran. The inaugural train, carrying 45 forty-foot containers of auto parts, traversed the route from Xi’an (China) to Tehran (Iran) via Altynkol and Bolashak (Kazakhstan) and Etrek […]
Does Uzbekistan need transit integration?
For the Central Asian states, the issue of direct participation in international transit cargo transportation is becoming relevant. Integration into the global transport network allows not only to expand the market for export products abroad, but also to join the intermediate trade turnover between countries and receive bonuses for the transit of goods through their […]
Iran-China freight train relaunched
Iran-China freight train was relaunched at Aprin dry port, in Eslamshahr county, southwest of Tehran city, on Sunday (21 Jul). Relaunching this train was simultaneous with launching first phase of the China-Europe rail corridor, in a ceremony attended by Miad Salehi, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (known as RAI), as well […]
38th meeting of the Conference of General Directors (Responsible Representatives) of OSJD wrapped up in Ashgabat – the Ashgabat Declaration adopted
From 15 to 19 April 2024 the 38th meeting of the Conference of General Directors (Authorized Representatives) of OSJD was held in Ashgabat. The participating delegations included: Azerbaijan Railways CJSC Belarusian Railways CJSC “MAV Hungarian State Railways” Vietnam Railway Group of Companies JSC “Georgian Railway” JSC “National Company “Kazakhstan Temir Zholy” State Corporation “Chinese Railways” […]
Ashgabat Hosts 38th Meeting of OSJD Railways General Directors
On 15 April 2024, the 38th meeting of the Conference of General Directors (Responsible Representatives) of OSJD Railways began its work in Ashgabat, which will last until 19 April. The provisional agenda of the meeting includes consideration of the results of work for 2023: – OSJD Freight Transport Commissions; – Passenger Transportation Commissions; – Commission […]
Digital transformation of railway transport discussed at the ESCAP meeting in Almaty
The second Expert Group Meeting and Capacity Building Workshop on Digital Transformation of Railway and Multimodal Transport in North and Central Asia were held on 26-27 April 2023 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in a hybrid format, the press service of the TRACECA Project reports. At the meeting of the Expert Group, the ESCAP Secretariat presented several […]
Improving international rail transport are on the agenda OSJD-led meeting in Ashgabat
These days, the 34th meeting of representatives of the Parties to the International Railway Transit Tariff Agreement is being held in Ashgabat, dedicated to the improvement and updating of the Agreement, TDH reports. The agreement unites two dozen countries, which establishes uniform rules and tariffs for the transportation of goods by rail in transit. The […]