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Turkmenistan recorded high indices in the road, rail and air transport facilities for the first eight months of 2013, the Turkmen government reported .

Particularly, the dynamics of growth in the cargo and passenger transportation compared to the level of eight months of last year is as follows: the Ministry of Railway Transport - 119.8 and 102.9 percent, automobile - 104 and 102.6 percent, the Public Service of Maritime and River Transport - 100.4 and 172.2 percent, Turkmenistan Airlines - 109.7 percent.

Earlier, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said at a government meeting that one of the determining factors ensuring Turkmenistan's successful socio- economic development is the clear work of the transport sector.

"Currently, there are high standards for the quality and reliability of cargo and passenger transportation," the Turkmen President said. "This is also intended to promote fruitful international cooperation, effective use of transcontinental transit-transport routes through Central Asia."

Turkmenistan borders with Kazakhstan, Iran, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan on land and with Azerbaijan, Russian Federation, Kazakhstan and Iran in Caspian Sea.

Regional transport projects have been activated in recent years; large-scale reconstruction of seaport in Turkmenbashi is being prepared, highways are being modernized.