BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 24
By Sadraddin Aghjayev - Trend:
The subsidiary of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, ADY Express LLC, transported a record amount of cargo by the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway in the first half of 2021, Trend reports citing ADY Express.
Since early 2021, the company has transported 108,534 tons of goods in 1,767 wagons through the BTK, which is the maximum indicator for the entire activity of this railway.
In 2020, ADY Express transported 50,000 tons of cargo via BTK, which is 117 percent less than the current figure, the company said.
The overwhelming majority of transportation fell on the cargo of the Russian Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.
"During the specified period, the company transported steel in rolls and grain crops," the statement reads.
During the entire operation of the BTK railway, ADY Express LLC transported over 185,000 tons of cargo in more than 3,000 wagons.
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