BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 9. Iran plans to significantly increase rail freight transport with Turkmenistan to as much as six to seven million tons annually, said Jabar Ali Zakeri, Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development and CEO of the Iranian Railways Company (RAI), Trend reports.
Following his visit to the Incheboron railway station with Turkmenistan’s Minister of Railway Transport, Mammet Akmammedov, Zakeri noted that one of the preliminary agreements reached within the joint economic commission between Iran and Turkmenistan is the expansion of rail freight capacity.
Zakeri articulated that the throughput capacity of Incheboron
railway station is projected to escalate from 600,000 tons annually
to 1 million tons in the forthcoming fiscal cycle. Through the
optimization of infrastructural frameworks, this metric has the
potential to escalate to 3 million tons on an annual basis.
The minister articulated that specific regional impediments are
being mitigated through synergistic collaboration with Iranian
enterprises and organizations. Turkmenistan has committed to
tackling prevailing infrastructural challenges. This transnational
collaboration is anticipated to transform Incheboron railway
station into a pivotal nexus within the
Iran-Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan railway corridor.
“The enhanced infrastructural framework and augmented transit
capabilities at Incheboron railway station will catalyze a plethora
of economic prospects within the region,” Zakeri articulated.
In accordance with the bilateral strategic framework established
between Iran and Turkmenistan concerning transit and freight
logistics, both nations are poised to facilitate the movement of up
to 20 million tons of transit cargo per annum across their
respective territories by the year 2028.
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