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Large-scale construction of railways underway in Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan Materials 15 November 2016 17:55 (UTC +04:00)

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Nov. 15

By Huseyn Hasanov– Trend:

In Turkmenistan, nearly 30 percent of the cargo turnover accounts for the share of railway transport, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper said.

“A considerable part of the export-import and transit cargo is transported by rail,” the article said.

The advantages of railway transportation include the ability to deliver large volume of cargo over long distances, high load capacity of the rolling stock unit and low specific fuel consumption per unit of cargo turnover.

The large-scale construction of railways is underway in Turkmenistan, the newspaper said.

The new Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway with a length of 697.5 kilometers on the Turkmen territory, and which links the EU member states, Russia and Kazakhstan with the Gulf countries, was built in 2014.

It is expected that the cargo turnover as of the fifth year of the railway line’s operation will be about 10-12 million tons per year.

At present, the construction of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan railway is underway, its Turkmen section [Atamyrat-Imamnazar-Akina (Afghanistan)] was completed and its launch is planned for November 2016.

Tejan-Sarakhs-Mashhad (300 kilometers), Turkmenabat-Atamyrat (215 kilometers), Ashgabat-Karakum-Dashoguz (530 kilometers) railways, more than 40 new railway bridges, including two bridges through the Amu Darya river, the largest one in Central Asia, were also built within the railway transport development program’s implementation.

The Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper notes that the country regularly purchases modern diesel locomotives, passenger and freight cars, means of transportation of container, bulk, liquid, reactive and other types of cargo.

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