Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 30
By Maksim Tsurkov – Trend:
The first freight train has been sent off via the new Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway.
The train consists of 32 containers loaded with grain. The train was sent from Kazakhstan’s Kokshetau on October 24, and its final destination will be Turkey’s Mersin.
The opening ceremony of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway has been held today in Baku.
The BTK railway was constructed on the basis a Georgian-Azerbaijani-Turkish intergovernmental agreement.
The railway’s peak capacity will be 17 million tons of cargo per year.