Turkmenistan is speeding up construction of the North-South Railway, a project based on a deal with Kazakhstan and Iran signed in 2007, Trend reports.
400 km of the Bereket-Gyzylgaya-Uzen (Kazakhstan) have been constructed. Construction was complicated by the dried out stream of River Uzboy at the Burgun Stations. Trains with coal from Tuvergyr, Gyzylgaya and chemicals from Garabogaz will use the road.
Train stations have been constructed at Daneata, Tersakan, Zirik, Babaguly, Madav, Akjader on the Bereket-Estrek-Serkhetyak Railway, the Great Silk Road.
The largest train terminal in Asia was built at the basis of Kurendag.
The project will open a path from Middle Asia and the Gulf to Europe and Asia. Cargo transit will be available for Southern and South-Eastern Asia, coats of the Indian Ocean to states of the Northern and Eastern Europe through Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Russia.
