Turkmen leader orders to complete work on North-South railway by 2013
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has ordered the construction of the Turkmen section of the North-South railway and to commission it by 2013, an official Turkmen source said on Thursday.
"This issue must be constantly controlled," he added.
An intergovernmental agreement on the North-South project was signed between Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran in 2007.
The North-South project will open the way for European and Asian countries to Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. A similar opportunity will appear for the transit of goods from the countries of South and South-East Asia, the Indian Ocean to the Northern and Eastern Europe through Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Russia.
According to preliminary forecasts, three to five million tons of cargo a year will be initially transported. The volume will increase to 10-12 million tons in the future.
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