Azerbaijan, Baku, August 3 / Trend , E. Ismaylov /
The works on the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, which will connect Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, are carried in a normal regime, a source at the Ministry of Transport of Azerbaijan said, commenting on the Russian media information about the breakdown in the construction schedule of the railway because of under-funding.
"Everything is in order, and work in this project is carried out in a normal regime, there is no problem," the same source said.
Azerbaijan plans to allocate $200 million from SOFAZ to reconstruct the Georgian section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway. Some $280,000 was allocated to maintain Marabda-Kars Railway LLC, which was provided to pay salaries and office expenses.
The first tranche of 20.7 million manats was granted in 2007. In 2008, SOFAZ allocated 5.3 million manat to finance the construction project of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway in the Georgian territory.
The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project includes the construction of 105km-railway lines, with 76 kilometres section running via Turkey and 29 kilometres section via Georgia. Moreover, 183 kilometres section of Akhalkalaki-Marabda-Tbilisi railway will be also reconstructed to improve the carrying capacity to 15million 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.
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