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Turkmenistan and Iran have agreed to step up cooperation in the railway sector and increase the turnover of transit cargo. This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan following 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 Farzaneh Sadegh and the head of the Railways Department Jabbar Ali Zakeri.
The Turkmen side got acquainted with the work of the wagon control center and the capabilities of the dry port "Aprin" in Tehran, and also visited the Akyayla-Incheburun railway crossing.
Particular attention at the talks was paid to the activation 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.