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By Nigar Abbasova

Azerbaijan Railways (ADY) continues capital overhaul of the 600-kilometers Baku-Boyuk Kesik line (Georgian border), a part of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway project.

The company reported that the work is currently underway in the nine kilometer length Garabujag-Kurdamir section. Dismantlement of the old road has already been launched. The maintenance operations, which are planned to last one week, are being carried out by Specialized Railway Enterprise LLC No. 5.

So far some 230 kilometers of the line have been overhauled. The reconstruction work is expected to increase the average speed of trains on the route up to 140 km per hour.

In December 2013, Azerbaijani Railway completed the repair of 317 kilometers on the route Baku - Boyuk Kesik. The complete overhaul of the Baku-Boyuk Kesik section was implemented under the State Program on the railway system development in Azerbaijan for 2010-2014.

The main purpose of the state program is to provide effective activity of the transport complex by increasing the transit potential of Azerbaijan, increase the level of railway transport services and reduce transport expenditures while transporting passengers and freight.

Being constructed under a Georgian-Azerbaijani-Turkish intergovernmental agreement, BTK will have a capacity of 412,000 tons of freight a year. The construction work has already been completed by almost 95 percent.

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