The company Russian Railways (RZD) is ready to participate in implementing the project of the international transport corridor (ITC) North - South, first vice president of the company Vadim Morozov said at the second International Railway Business Forum “Strategic Partnership1520: Central Asia.”
“At present, within the framework of the implementation of the railway route of the ITC North - South, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran began building along the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea a railway line Uzen-Gorgan that will replace the existing longer route to Iran,” Morozov said.
According to Morozov, “the emergence of the given route will make it possible for the first time in history to create a railway bridge about 4,500 kilometers long from St. Petersburg to the port of Bandarabas in the Persian Gulf and connect by a shorter way North-Western and Central Europe with countries of the Middle East and South Asia.”