The Ministry of Transport and Communications of Belarus has developed three routes for the delivery of cargo containers to Iran through the North-South transport corridor, Minister Aleksei Lyakhnovich said, Report informs via TASS.
“The western route envisages the transportation of goods by rail to the Astara station on the border of Azerbaijan and Iran, and then by road to Iranian customers. The central route provides for shipment by rail to the ports of the Astrakhan region. There they will be loaded onto sea transport and delivered to the Iranian port of Bandar-e Anzali. Via the eastern route, the containers will move along the railway tracks to the border stations of Akyayla (Turkmenistan). Later they will be sent to Iran,” he said.
The minister recalled that Russian 20 ports are used for the transportation of Belarusian export goods: “Cargo transportation is carried out through the ports of the North-West region of Russia, the ports of the southern seas, land routes in the direction of China, Asian countries, as well as the routes using the North-South international transport corridor in the direction of Iran and India, the ports of the Caspian Sea and a number of other directions.”