Irna News Agency

Iranian, Azeri, Russian, Belarusian, and Russian heads of railway companies, respectively Saeed Mohammadzadeh, Javid Gurbanov, Vladimir Morozov, and Oleg Belozerov, signed the agreement on the sidelines of the 67th meeting of Council for Rail Transport of the Commonwealth and Baltic states.

Building Rasht-Astara railroad was discussed in the meeting.

It was announced in the meeting that the volume of transport through the corridor has increased 21.6% in the first nine months of the year reaching 4.7 bn metric tons.

Containers transport has witnessed 2.4-fold increase reaching more than 7,000.

It was also said in the meeting that test-transfer from India to Russia through Iran and Azerbaijan has been done by Russian RDY Logistika company.