Georgian Minister for Regional Development and Infrastructure David Narmania and Turkish Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Georgia Levant Murat Burkhan discussed construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway (BTK).
Special attention was paid to the Marabda-Tetritskaro-Tsalka-Akhalkalaki-Kartsakhi railway line. Narmania described the progress and the economic benefits the railway will bring to Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
The BTK line includes construction of a new 105-km line, reconstruction of the Akhalkalaki-Marabda-Tbilisi section (to increase capacity to 15 million tons of cargo annually) and construction of a facility to switch from Georgian railway guage to the European one at Akhalkalaki.
