Turkmenistan ends construction of Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway part
By Nazrin Gadimova
Turkmenistan has completed construction of a part of the new Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway, the Turkmen government reported.
This news was announced after the governmental inspection of the railway project, held on July 4.
The total length of the large-scale Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway, which runs from Kazakh steppes via the Karakum desert to the mountainous Gulistan province in the north of Iran, is 900 kilometers, 700 kilometers of which runs through the Turkmen territory.
The railway project has been implemented since 2007 after the signing of a high-level trilateral agreement between Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Iran.
Turkmenistan has land borders with Kazakhstan, Iran, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan. The country also borders on the Caspian Sea with Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Iran.