Azerbaijan to purchase new passenger carriages for Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway from Switzerland
7.1.2014

Azerbaijani Railways OJSC intends to put new passenger carriages into operation in the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars route.

For this purpose, the company applied to the Ministry of Finance for allocation of funds from the state budget to purchase 30 carriages meeting international standards from Swiss Stadler Rail Grop Company, the head of Press service of the OJSC Nadir Azmammadov told APA-Economics.

Note that new device will be installed in the Georgia-Turkey border checkpoint to change wheel pair of those carriages from 1,520 mm to 1,432 mm for moving in Turkey.

APA