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Inaugurated the new railway corridor that connects Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey
the line Baku - Tbilisi - Kars is planned for a annual ability to three million passengers and 17 million tons of goods
October 31, 2017
Yesterday, to the presence of the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, of the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of the Prime Minister of the Kazakhstan, Bakytzhan Sagintayev, of the Prime Minister of the Georgia, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, of the Prime Minister of the Uzbekistan, Abdulla Aripov, and of the representatives of the Tajikistan and the Turkmenistan, is inaugurated the new railway corridor Baku - Tbilisi - Kars (BTK) that he connects the coast of ' Azerbaijan on the Sea Caspian with the Capital of the Georgia and Turkey oriental.
The new line, almost 850 kilometers of which 503 kilometers in Azerbaijan, 263 kilometers in Georgia and 79 kilometers in Turkey, is realized on the base of an agreement which signed on February 7, 2007 with the scope to make of an essential part of the southern part of the New Via of the Silk that connects China with Europe.
According to the forecasts, initially on new line BTK million passengers and 6,5 million tons of goods will travel annually, in order to go up until three million passengers and then 17 million tons of goods within 2034.
The European Union, in a note, has evidenced that "the opening of the railway line Baku - Tbilisi - Kars is an important step in the transport connections that interconnect the European Union, Turkey, the Georgia, Azerbaijan and central Asia. The Europe Union - the note emphasizes - receives with favor the new railway corridor that, with the investments, improves the infrastructure and the coordination of the logistics offering better connectivity, new business opportunity and an increase of the commercial exchanges. This is to the heart of its strategy of partnership oriental so as that of central Asia. The European Union has always supported projects turns to improve the connections with the near Countries partner. With the ulterior improvements of the ways of transport between Turkey and Bulgaria so as those between Azerbaijan and central Asia, this project will offer to a fast and reliable connection between Europe and Asia through the ancient one Via of the Silk. We - law still in the note of the EU - are also supporting the southern corridor of transport of the gas that will offer an analogous connection for the energy".
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Yesterday, to the presence of the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, of the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of the Prime Minister of the Kazakhstan, Bakytzhan Sagintayev, of the Prime Minister of the Georgia, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, of the Prime Minister of the Uzbekistan, Abdulla Aripov, and of the representatives of the Tajikistan and the Turkmenistan, is inaugurated the new railway corridor Baku - Tbilisi - Kars (BTK) that he connects the coast of ' Azerbaijan on the Sea Caspian with the Capital of the Georgia and Turkey oriental.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
