Turkey Hosts Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad Rail Corridor Working Group Meeting
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The 13th meeting of the Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad Freight Train Working Group was held focusing on the development of infrastructures and transport capacities and investigating the financial contribution of private sector and Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in the rail corridor.
The meeting was held in Turkey’s Istanbul last week, according to the Public Relations Department of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).
It was organized in cooperation with the Turkish government and ECO Secretariat with the participation of delegations from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Pakistan and Turkey as well as representatives of ECO’s Trade and Development Bank, IDB and the private sector.
The participants mulled over a host of issues and various requirements of the Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad (ITI) Freight Train including containerization and digitization of procedures between countries along the corridor route and also the general operational situation of ECO train.
Participants attending the Working Group exchanged their views on the recent infrastructural development and transportation capacity on route of the ECO Train countries, the interest of the Bulgarian private sector in participating in the rail corridor, reconstruction of the Zahedan-Taftan-Quetta Railway, status of the logistics center in Zahedan, diversity of origin and destination, etc.
The ITI railway is 6,500 km long, 2,570 km of which is in Iranian soil, 2,000 km of which is in Turkey and about 1,900 km of which is located in Pakistani land and territory.