BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 17. Austrian Railways would like to cooperate with Azerbaijan Railways in the delivery of vagons, locomotives, Franz Wessig, Head of Group Foreign Economic Relations at the Federal Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs of Austria said in an exclusive interview with Trend.
“Which goods are transported is the matter of logistics, trade. We want to deliver hardware, software, the goods - it depends what Europe needs from China and what Europe can export to China. It will also help Austrian companies in their export and import activities,” he added.
Wessig believes that there was a very successful meeting together with the minister of digital development and transport Rashad Nabiyev.
“We talked about very important fields of cooperation such as transport. We discussed the ways of increasing transport through the Middle Corridor, to bring goods from China, Central Asia to Europe. I think it is a very promising field of cooperation. In the current geopolitical situation Azerbaijan is regarded as an important hub in the transport sector, especially, within to the new Silk Road, the Middle Corridor,” he said.
Wessig recalled that in this context, a few days ago a memorandum of understanding was signed between Azerbaijan’s ADY Container and Rail Cargo Austria.
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