BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 3
By Jeila Aliyeva - Trend:
Turkmenistan and Iran have opened a test border crossing for the movement of cargo vehicles at the Artyk-Lotfabad checkpoint, Trend reports with reference to the Business Turkmenistan information portal.
The Iranian trucks will cross the border post of the two countries, where the cargo will be moved from Iranian trucks to Turkmen ones, which will deliver it to the destination on the territory of Turkmenistan or another country. Furthermore, the Turkmen trucks will return empty trailers to Iran in Artyk.
A similar operation will be performed for Turkmen trucks at the entrance to Iran.
As reported, Iran and Turkmenistan kept their borders closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, however, the parties discussed issues of increasing transport traffic during a videoconference in early May.
Earlier, Turkmenistan and Iran resumed trade at the border of namesake cities of Sarakhs.
As reported, earlier Turkmenistan has allowed 30 out of 770 Iranian trucks to enter its territory said the representative of the customs service of Iran, Rouhollah Latif.
These trucks were detained on April 1 at the namesake cities of Sarakhs on the two sides of the Turkmen-Iranian border due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier, a new automobile bridge has opened to connect the namesake cities of Sarakhs on the two sides of the Turkmen-Iranian border. The opening ceremony was held on June 8, 2020.
This was the second joint border development project on the construction of automobile bridges between the two countries aiming to expand and develop road transportation.
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