BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 3. Turkmenistan and Romania discussed issues related to cargo transportation, as well as exchanged information on the capabilities of the transport departments of the two countries, Trend reports with reference to the Turkmen media.
These issues were discussed during a meeting between representatives of the Turkmenawtoulaglary Agency (Turkmen automobile service) and the Romanian delegation headed by Adrian Foghis, Vice Minister of Transport and Infrastructure and coordinator of the working group on the implementation of the strategic project of the Black Sea-Caspian international transport corridor.
During the meeting, the topic of the Black Sea-Caspian Sea corridor was touched upon, in the context of which, work is underway on a draft agreement between the governments of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Romania and Georgia on the creation and operation of this cargo transport route.
The parties noted that this is a project launched by Romania and Turkmenistan more than 10 years ago, in 2012, and aimed at creating an intermodal transport route (sea/river and road/rail transport) between Central and Northern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia.
It was also noted that for the countries of the Asia-Pacific Region it is also an advantageous opportunity to use the corridor with the ports of Baku/Alat, Constanta, Poti, Batumi, and Turkmenbashi.
For the smooth implementation of transportation along the Black Sea-Caspian route, it is necessary to coordinate simplified procedures for issuing visas, customs declarations and other accompanying electronic documents in a quadrilateral format.