Turkmenistan and Iran open joint rail line
The Inceburun-Gorgan rail line that links Turkmenistan and Iran
was officially inaugurated on May 27, IRIB news agency
reported.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran's Minister of Roads
and Urban Development Ali Nikzad attended the inauguration
ceremony.
The 88-kilometers long rail project connects the north western
Iranian city of Gorgan with Incheboroon in Turkmenistan.
The railway has the capacity to annually transfer 10 million tons
of goods and 4 million passengers.
By inauguration of the project, a rail corridor connecting the
Persian Gulf to Central Asia was created. Iran now has access to
Russia, CIS states, and China.
The project implementation also opened access for European and
Asian countries to Central Asia and the Persian Gulf.
A similar opportunity has appeared for the transit of goods from
countries in south and south-east Asia, and the shores of the
Indian Ocean to the countries of Northern and Eastern Europe
through Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Russia.
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