In Turkmenistan, nearly 30 percent of the cargo turnover accounts for the share of railway transport. The advantages of railway transport include the ability to deliver large volume of cargo over long distances, high load capacity of the rolling stock unit and low specific fuel consumption per unit of cargo turnover.
The large-scale construction of railways is underway in Turkmenistan, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper said.
The new Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway with a length of 697.5 kilometers on the Turkmen territory, and which links the EU member states, Russia and Kazakhstan with the Gulf countries, was built in 2014.
It is expected that the cargo turnover as of the fifth year of the railway line’s operation will be about 10-12 million tons per year.
At present, the construction of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan railway is underway, its Turkmen section [Atamyrat-Imamnazar-Akina (Afghanistan)] was completed and its launch is planned for November 2016.
Tejan-Sarakhs-Mashhad (300 kilometers), Turkmenabat-Atamyrat (215 kilometers), Ashgabat-Karakum-Dashoguz (530 kilometers) railways, more than 40 new railway bridges, including two bridges through the Amu Darya river, the largest one in Central Asia, were also built within the railway transport development program’s implementation.
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