Turkey looks to build alternative road to ease shipping of produce
Speaking to Anadolu Agency regarding the Kars-Iğdır-Dilucu-Nakhchivan Railway Project, a branch of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway Project, whose construction has reached the final stages in the eastern Anatolia region, Minister Arslan explained that if a train departs from Edirne, arrives in Kars and then uses the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway, it will go to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and then to the north of China.
"We also want to create an alternative, a line that will reach Iğdır-Dilucu-Nakhchivan and therefore Iran through Kars," he continued, suggesting that this will also complete a corridor through which the freight movement going eastward through Turkey can reach Iran, then Pakistan, India, and the south of China. "This is why we take this project very seriously," Arslan added.
Arslan highlighted that the products produced in eastern Anatolia will reach the target markets more easily thanks to the development of the industry, as well as the construction of roads and railways. He said local fruits and vegetables are produced, but they are consumed locally since they cannot reach the target markets and therefore production does not increase, suggesting that when the products reach the target markets through the railway, people will be able to produce and sell more.
source: dailysabah.com
