Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, May 31 / Trend, H. Hasanov /
The Railway Transport Ministry of Turkmenistan plans to sign a contract with Stock Plaza LLP (UK) to purchase 300 specialized freight cars for transportation of grain, cement and mineral products at their own expense.
The corresponding decree was signed by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov. The document says that this deal will serve the objectives to fulfill the tasks assigned to the country's rail industry, further strengthening the material-technical base of industry, as well as improving freight transportation quality.
Earlier this year, a master plan of rail transport development for 2012-2016 aimed at accelerating development of this sector, its basic diversification, as well as creating new jobs was approved.
The plan envisages construction of Atamyrat-Imamnazar and Gazachak-Shasenem-Dashoguz railways, Turkmenabat-Farab railway bridge over Amu Darya, highway for high-speed trains, running between Turkmenbashi city of Balkan Province and Turmenabat city of Lebap Province, as well a number of other large infrastructure projects.
Dozens of railway stations, locomotive sheds, engineering facilities, as well as social objects will be constructed at the highway of transnational North-South railway - from Bereket city to the Kazakh border.
Besides Bereket, railway border station Serhetyaka and regional center Etrek on the Turkmen-Iranian border will become important international transport junctions.
Implementation of North-South project will open access to European and Asian countries to Central Asia and the Persian Gulf via the shortest and economically beneficial route.
On the other hand, similar opportunity will appear also for cargo transit from South and South-East Asian states, from Indian Ocean coasts to North and East European countries - through Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Russia.