Azerbaijan, Baku, 3 March / Trend corr S. Aliyev/ In March, Baku will host the meeting of the Coordination Council on the construction of the railway communication Baku-Tbilisi-Kars. The meeting was previously scheduled for 12 February but was then postponed.
The meeting is expected to discuss the implementation of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project. Construction is expected to be completed in 2010.
The Baku- Tbilisi-Tbilisi- Kars project includes the construction of a 105km-railway road with a 76 km section running via Turkey and 29 km section via Georgia. In addition, 183 km section of Akhalkalaki-Marabda-Tbilisi railway will be also reconstructed to improve the carrying capacity to 15mln tons of cargo per year. It is planned to build in Akhalkalaki a place for the transition of trains from the track existing in Georgia to the European one. The project is estimated at $422mln and taking into consideration the accompanying infrastructure its cost will total $600mln.