BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 21
By Fakhri Vakilov -Trend:
Uzbekistan Railways plans to launch transit trains to Azerbaijan and Georgia by spring 2020, Trend reports citing the company.
"A meeting was held in Tashkent between the heads of the railways of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to discuss the development of an international multimodal route between the five countries," the statement said.
The launch of a pilot transit container train along a multimodal route is scheduled for the first quarter of 2020.
During the meeting, its participants agreed on common transit tariff rates and conditions for the transportation of goods along the route, and discussed the logistics infrastructure. The parties also agreed to create a coordination committee composed of the heads of railways of the participating countries, chaired by the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan.
Following the meeting, the parties signed a protocol.
Uzbekistan Railways organized additional trains on New Year and New Year's days from Tashkent to Moscow and Urgench.
From December 16, 2019 through January 7, 2020, an additional train is operated on the Tashkent-Urgench-Tashkent route. From December 14, 2019 through January 11, 2020, an additional train is scheduled on the Tashkent-Moscow-Tashkent route.
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