He noted that the passenger transportation will be launched after receiving passenger trains ordered from Stadler.
"I recently met with representatives of Stadler, and, they said, the trains will be delivered in early 2019," Gurbanov said.
The official opening ceremony of the BTK railway was held in Baku Oct. 30 last year. The BTK railway was constructed on the basis a Georgian-Azerbaijani-Turkish intergovernmental agreement.
The railway’s peak capacity will be 17 million tons of cargo per year. At an initial stage, this figure will be one million passengers and 6.5 million tons of cargo.
Gurbanov added that the tariffs for passenger transportation will be coordinated with Georgia and Turkey, and the final decision will be made at the governmental level.
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