A test train official launch ceremony will be held today as part of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway construction project on the territory of Georgia - Kartsakhi- Akhalkalaki (the Georgian-Turkish border).
Georgian Minister of Economy Giorgi Kvirikashvili and Transport Minister Ziya Mammadov will attend the official ceremony, Trend cited the Georgian ministry of economy.
The commissioning of the railway is planned in late 2015. The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway is being constructed on the basis of the Georgian-Azerbaijani-Turkish inter-state agreement.
Peak capacity of the corridor will be 17 million tons of cargo. Azerbaijan has allocated a loan worth $775 million for construction of the Georgian section.
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India show interest in this project.
