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Erdogan: Opening of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway is an important event

20 October 2017 17:31 (UTC+04:00)
Erdogan: Opening of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway is an important event

By Trend

The opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway on October 30 in Baku is an important event, Turkish media cited the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying on October 20.

Erdogan said that from the very beginning he believed in the importance of implementing that project.

The BTK railway has been constructed on the basis a Georgian-Azerbaijani-Turkish intergovernmental agreement. The railway’s peak capacity will be 17 million tons of cargo per year. At an initial stage, this figure will be one million passengers and 6.5 million tons of cargo.

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