The Zangezur transport corridor is scheduled to be put into operation within the next four to five years, Türkiye's Minister of Transport Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said.
He stressed that the corridor will help relieve the bottleneck in the Caspian basin.
"Construction of the Zangezur corridor will be completed within four to five years. With its commissioning, we will relieve the bottleneck in the Caspian basin," Uraloğlu said.
The Turkish minister added that construction of a section of the route in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic has already been completed, while work on another section is in its final stages.
"We have held a tender for the 224 km railway project from Kars to Dilucu. Part of the section in Nakhchivan is already ready, the other part is being built by Azerbaijan and is almost complete," Uraloğlu said.
Earlier, the transport minister said that after the railway line from Kars to Nakhchivan is launched, around 5 million people and 15 million tonnes of cargo could be transported annually. The project is estimated to cost 2.4 billion euro.
