“The Islamic Republic of Iran Railways is eager to reduce train travel times from the current 14 to 12 days and we hope that goods transit between the two countries will further grow in near future,” Deputy Managing Director of Iranian Railway Hossein Ashouri declared.
“Once the missing links in borders of Afghanistan and Iraq are constructed, Iran would turn into the best corridor for cargo transit to these states. Rail freight tariff rates remained constant in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Iran over the years 2015 and 2016 mainly to encourage more merchants to use more of rail transit”, Ashouri further asserted.
Iranian Railway Company plans to launch regular Iran-China train in order to deploy Iranian goods to Central Asian countries as well as to China, mainly train trips every fifteen days rather than the current once in a month.
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