ADY Express starts railway freightage via North-South route

  30 August 2016    Read: 1490
ADY Express starts railway freightage via North-South route
Despite the railway link between Azerbaijan and Iran does not exist, ADY Express started freightage via North-South route, company told, AzVision.az reports.
According to the company, it firstly transported compressed liquid gas – butadiene from Russia to Iran by tank-containers. The company said over 60 such tank-containers have been sent to the north through Azerbaijan.

“Those containers entered Azerbaijan from Iran by trucks and have been entrained in the railway station in Astara and sent to Russia. These freights were being transported to Russia’s Astrakhan from Iran. However, after Azerbaijani president issued a decree and the Cabinet of Ministers approved rules arisen from this decree, foreign trucks carrying railway cargos through Azerbaijan have been exempted from duties and road taxes”.

Via the North-South International Transport Corridor, the cargos are transported in the route of India-Persian Gulf-Iran-Azerbaijan-Russia-Scandinavian countries/Northern Europe within 14 days.

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