Automotive Exports – November 2017

Monthly automotive aftermarket magazine
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway
Project Inaugurated
Turkish President Erdogan, Azerbaijani President Aliyev, Georgian Premier
Kvirikashvili attend inauguration ceremony of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway
project held in Baku
The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK)
railway project -- linking
Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia
– is a crucial step for the future,
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
said.
"The most important leg of the
Middle Corridor Project to unite
Europe and Asia via Anatolia is
fulfilled with the first service of the
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway," Erdogan
said during the inauguration
ceremony held in Baku along with
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev
and Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi
Kvirikashvili.
The 826-kilometer (513-mile)
railway project connecting Baku
with northeastern province of Kars,
Turkey, via Tbilisi was launched in
2017 and construction began in
2008.
In the keynote speech, Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
said having launched to link Asia,
Europe and Africa to each other
one of the new Silk Road chains
has been inaugurated.
President continued; “With the
first trip of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway
one of the most important legs
of Middle Corridor Project has
been completed. So, we have
proclaimed railway network
has been installed ranging from
London to China. Regarding our
decisiveness and vision this project
is common success of all of us.”
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