Turkmenistan and Iran have agreed to intensify cooperation in the railway sector and increase the turnover of transit goods. This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan following the results of the working visit of the Turkmen delegation to Tehran.

It is noted that the Minister of Railway Transport of Turkmenistan, Mammet Akmammedov, held meetings with the Minister of Roads and Urban Development of Iran, Farzane Sadegh, and the head of the Railway Department, Jabbar Ali Zakeri.

The Turkmen side got acquainted with the work of the wagon control center and the capabilities of the “Aprin” dry port in Tehran, and also visited the Akyaila-Incheburun railway crossing.

Particular attention was paid to the intensification of the China–Kazakhstan–Turkmenistan–Iran railway and the international corridor of the “Ashgabat Agreement”, which includes Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Oman.

The parties also reached agreements on expanding cooperation within the framework of the railway system of the member states of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) and ensuring the effective use of the Armenia-Iran–Turkmenistan–Kazakhstan transit and transport corridor.