BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 24
By Nargiz Ismayilova - Trend:
Azerbaijan Railways CJSC transported 6 TEU containers on Azerbaijan-Lithuania- Azerbaijan route in the first half of 2020, press office of the company told Trend.
According to the press office, during the reporting period this indicator decreased by 5.1 times compared to 1H2019.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijani Railways transported 4 TEU containers from Azerbaijan to Lithuania, and 2 TEU containers in the contrary direction.
Since 2017 to 2020, 108 TEU containers were transported on Azerbaijan-Lithuania-Azerbaijan route.
The construction of railways in Azerbaijan started back in 1878, and the Baku-Sabunchu-Surakhani railway, with a length of only 20 kilometers, was commissioned on January 20, 1880.
Since then, taking into account the growing demand for cargo transportation, the work on railways' development has been carried in Azerbaijan.
Today, the total length of the main rail routes in the country reaches 2,954.74 kilometers, the operational length is 2,133.07 kilometers, of which 803.3 kilometers are double-track while 1,329.72 kilometers are single-track.
Some 1,169.17 kilometers or 54.82 percent of the total operational length of the tracks have been electrified, and 964.9 kilometers, that is 45.18 percent, operate on diesel traction.
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