Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 11 / Trend /
Lithuania's Transport and Communications Minister Eligijus Masiulis and his Kazakh counterpart Berik Kamalijev discussed common issues of cooperation in the fields of rail, road transport and aviation, the Lithuanian Tranport Ministry said, ELTA reported.
"The priority field of cooperation between Lithuania and Kazakhstan consists in rail transport projects. For a more active participation in transportation of transit goods between Europe and Asia we are considering certain opportunities of arranging a route of container train shuttling between Klaipeda Seaport and Almata", said Minister Masiulis.
According to the minister the new railway project is intended to be called Saule - a word common to both languages of cooperating countries. In Lithuanian this word means "the sun" and in the Kazakh language the word means "ray of the sun".
The planned route of the container train should go between Lithuania to Kazakhstan via the territories of Belarus and Russia. Later on it could be extended to the territory of China. In the European direction goods could be transported via Klaipeda Seaport to Scandinavian and other countries.
For the arrangement of the container train route between Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and Almata the successful experience in establishing the Viking train project between Klaipeda and Ukrainian port of Ilyjchovsk could be used and followed.