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Railway cargo transportation from Estonia to Azerbaijan drops

Transport Materials 24 July 2020 18:12 (UTC +04:00)
Railway cargo transportation from Estonia to Azerbaijan drops

BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 24

By Nargiz Ismayilova - Trend:

Azerbaijan Railways CJSC transported 108 TEU containers on Azerbaijan-Estonia-Azerbaijan route in the first half of 2020, press office of the company told Trend.

According to the press office, Azerbaijani Railways transported 11 TEU containers from Azerbaijan to Estonia, and 97 TEU containers in the contrary direction (down 2.1 times compared to 1H2019).

Since 2017 to 2020, 533 TEU containers were transported on Azerbaijan-Estonia-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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