Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend / The Azerbaijan State Railway announced that a schedule of passenger and freight transportation and the development of a schedule for the development of freight carriages and containers will be discussed in a next 46th meeting of the Council of Railway Transport of CIS and Baltic countries, to be held in Astana, Kazakhstan, from 17 to 19 May.
The meeting will focus on implementing the resolutions which were taken during previous meetings and the results of exploitation of the railway network over the first 4 months of 2007, the direction of trains at an international level in 2007-2008, the development of a range of freight carriages and containers and mutual agreements amongst the railway administrations.
During the meeting there are plans to inject changes to an agreement on international passenger transportation, consider the draft rules for perishable products in vacuum-packedcarriages.
Attending the meeting will be a delegation of the Azerbaijan State Railway, to be headed by the Chief of the ASR, Arif Asgarov.