BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 4. Russian Railways JSC increased transit traffic from January through March 2023 through the territory of Turkmenistan by 3.5 times compared to the same period last year, Trend reports with reference to the Turkmen media.
This was stated by the Senior Deputy General Director of Russian Railways JSC Sergey Pavlov, on May 3 at the international conference on "International transport and transit corridors: interconnection and development" (ITC 2023) on May 4, 2023.
According to him, the first quarter of this year, in comparison with the same period of 2022, also demonstrated a steady increase in the volume of cargo transportation from Russia to Turkmenistan - by 73 percent.
He noted that among the areas of joint work of Turkmenistan and Russia within the framework of program documents is the development of transportation along the eastern branch of the International North-South Transport Corridor, infrastructure projects, measures in the field of human resources and digital transformation of the industry.
Speaking about the corridors, Sergey Pavlov said that Russia's foreign trade traffic along the North-South corridor increased by 62 percent last year, and by 70 percent in the first quarter of 2023.