Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held a meeting dedicated to the upcoming commissioning of the first phase of the transnational railway trunk: Asia international railway transportation corridor, the Turkmen government said in a message.
This is the construction of the Atamyrat-Imamnazar (Turkmenistan) – Akina (Afghanistan) section. The completion of the construction and installation work is scheduled for early November.
It is expected that the transportation corridor passing through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan will have access to China’s extensive rail network and through it – to the rapidly developing states of the Asia-Pacific region.
A major socio-economic impact of the route’s commissioning is expected in Afghanistan.
In that place, where the transnational railway trunk is being built, road, power lines, energy pipelines are built simultaneously.
As part of the first phase of the project, the 85-kilometer part of the Atamyrat-Imamnazar section has been built in Turkmenistan. Total length of the railway is 88 kilometers. The section between Imamnazar and Akina border posts is three kilometers.
The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan railway will be the next “golden link” of the Asia railway corridor, which, in turn, will be the most important segment of the international network of transportation communications between the two parts of the vast continent – Europe and Asia.
Meanwhile, the commissioning of a terminal for receiving, storage and shipping of oil products is expected in November at the Imamnazar customs post. (Trend/Business World Magazine)
