Azerbaijan, Baku, 30 Jnuary / Trend corr. S.Aliyev, I.Khalilova / The Baku Subway is to purchase about twenty-five coaches in 2008, Tagi Ahmadov, the head of the Subway, reported on 30 January.
"However, the plan must be approved by the state," he said. In 2007, the Subway purchased twenty-five coaches.
Baku Subway submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers the cost estimated at AZN 130mln to continue construction, reconstruction of stations, purchase of new coaches and other work in 2008. The sum may be reduced AZN 85mln by the state.
Ahmadov said that there was a plan to put into commission a new Nasimi metro station in 2008.