The existing technological capacities of the national transport infrastructure allow the transport of more than 20 mln. tons load by railway annually. Over 13 mln. of that are the actual volume of the transit (65 % out of the total volume of the carriages), Musa Panakhov, the first Deputy Transport Ministry of Azerbaijan stated during the opening of the first meeting of the Co-ordination Council on Transit Carriages within ECO today, Trend reports.
According to him, the analysis of the foreign trade ties between the States located in the direction West-East and North-South is evidence of the possibility to increase the volumes of transit carriages in these directions.
According to Mr. Panakhov, with the intense development of the Azerbaijani economy, its transport infrastructure develops as well. Azerbaijan`s Transport Ministry jointly with the State Railway Company are actively working on the development of the railway infrastructure in the Azerbaijani part of the transport corridor North-South and TRASECA. According to the specially worked out actions program on improving the infrastructure along the corridors, works aimed at the reconstruction of railway equipment, maintenance of rolling stock, improvement of the power supply system, as well as reconstruction of the alarm system, and communication, etc are carried out at present.