In January - July 2020, the Azerbaijani Railway transported 6.045 thousand containers at the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars route. The rate has increased by 85% (3.924 thousand boxes) compared to Jan – July 2019, Azerbaijan's Trend news agency reports.
The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway opened on October 30, 2017.
Under the preliminary estimations, shortly, the railway's throughput capacity will reach 5 million tonnes per annum.
The railway links Asia and Europe, being the shortest route not only between Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey but - Asia and Europe.
BTK significantly reduces the time for transportation of goods. It facilitates Central Asian countries' access (Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) to the European and world markets.
The length of the BTK railway is 846 km. 504 km-section is in Azerbaijan, 263 km - in Georgia, and 79 km - in Turkey.
Bela Gelashvili
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