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Kars logistic center to provide BTK highway with service

Kars logistic center to provide BTK highway with service
Kars logistic center to provide BTK highway with service

The Kars logistic center will start operation by the end of 2020. The center has already received the first train.

It will provide the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars with the service, as the latter connects the Turkish railway system with the Georgia – Azerbaijan railroad.

The Kars logistic center links with the main highway via the seven-km line.

A total of 19 railroads are directed toward it, and the overall length of them is 20.5 km.

The 19 railroads cover 400000 square meters.

A total of 80000 is an area for containers, served by 60000 square meters of storage spot.

As Director of Professional Railway Club Davit Gochava says, the logistic center will serve the trains from a width of 1435 mm railway and 1520 mm width railroad networks, used by the former USSR countries.

The customs cargos will be documented locally and not – on the border.

As Gochava says, Georgia should accelerate the construction of a logistic center.

Notably, the cargos' transportation time via the highway gradually decreases.

The cargo owners show a higher interest in the highway. In June, new cargos were transferred via the BTK railway.

Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, using the BTK transport corridor, Turkey succeeded in maintaining cargo turnover with its trade partners.

The railway has become one of the key hubs for Turkey.

The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railroad will shortly start functioning in full capacity, as the work is intensely underway.

Following the document developed by the Georgian ministries for the years of 2021-2024, the Georgian government plans to purchase private land plots in Marabda, Akhalkalaki, and Kartsakhi and pay compensation to the owners.

The document also reads that the government plans to build protective structures to prevent landslide on the railroad.

The government of Georgia has already presented both documents to the Parliament.

Baku-Tbilisi-Kars rail line opened on October 30, 2017. The railroad line connects Asia with the European railroad net. It is not the shortest way of connecting only three countries but also connecting Asia and Europe. This railroad connects Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan with European and world markets.

The railroad is 846 kilometers. Five hundred and four kilometers go through Azerbaijan, 263 kilometers go through Georgia, and 79 kilometers through Turkey.

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