Baku, Azerbaijan, March 16
By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend:
The process of land purchase has started as part of construction of the logistics center in the Kars province in the north-east of Turkey, Turkey’s Resmi Gazete newspaper reported March 16.
The logistics center is being built jointly with the Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, the report noted.
The process of land purchase will be implemented by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD), which is part of the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications of Turkey.
The launch of the logistics center in Kars province is scheduled for Oct. 30 this year.
Earlier, Turkey’s Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications told Trend that a 300,000 square meters land plot was allotted for the construction of the logistics center.
Around 412,000 tons of cargo are expected to be transported through the logistics center annually.
An agreement on the creation of the logistics center was signed on July 19 last year, during the visit of Head of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC Javid Gurbanov to the Kars province, when he had familiarized himself with the progress of the BTK project.
The official opening ceremony of the BTK railway was held in Baku Oct. 30 last year. 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. At an initial stage, this figure will be one million passengers and 6.5 million tons of cargo.
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