Baku, Azerbaijan, May 8
By Ali Mustafayev – Trend:
Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) has great potential for transporting goods to Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and other countries, Chairman of the Kazakhstan Railways Kanat Alpysbaev said.
He made the remarks at a general meeting of members of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) International Association in Baku on May 8.
"We still receive applications from Kazakh shippers, which means that the cargo transportation via the TITR will increase in the near future. Today, we assess the cargo turnover potential of this route at about one million tons a year," he said.
He stressed that within the operative decision making, the heads of the Association decided to delegate some powers to the working group for prompt review of tariff conditions and their approval.
This, according to him, will give impetus to the adoption of decisions and allow members of the Association to quickly react to market needs.
"We are also interested in issues related to speed of cargo handling; in the near future we will initiate a quadripartite meeting with participation of members of the railway and customs administrations of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. The meeting will consider the issue of providing faster processing of cargo," Alpysbaev said.
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