BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 14. We hope to complete the expansion of the Georgian section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway next year, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said at a meeting held on March 13 in Berlin with the heads of leading German companies, Trend reports.
"We need to expand existing capacity, because the capacity we will be building was based on the existing volume of cargoes and our prognosis. So, now after the big turn towards Azerbaijan from Central Asia, we need to work hard. So, just for your information we are now investing Azerbaijan and probably next year this investment project will be completed into the expansion of one of the bottlenecks, which is Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railroad, it's Georgian segment. From 1 million tonnes it will be expanded to 5 million tonnes. Azerbaijan's investments, additional investments will be more than 120 million US dollars and we will complete it hopefully next year," President Ilham Aliyev said.