Rail Transport in Iran

Astata-Astara Railroad connecting Iran’s northwestern city of Astara to the Azerbaijani city with the same name will come on stream by Dec. 25, director general of International Affairs Office…

India will start exporting container cargo to Russia via Iran and Azerbaijan from next month, as it moves forward to operationalize the International North-South Transport Corridor, India’s…

Once the Caspian Port project is completed, the port will be the largest in northern Iran and make a major contribution to national and local economic development, the governor general of Gilan…

The rail route between the two Iranian cities of Qazvin and Rasht, which is the missing link in the International North-South Transport Corridor, will become operational by the end of the…

Tariffs for transportation of freight through the International North-South Transport Corridor may drop after the completion of a railroad segment connecting two Iranian and Azerbaijani border…

A senior diplomat said the second tripartite meeting among presidents of Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan scheduled for Wednesday will focus on regional conflicts. Speaking to reporters on Sunday,…

A two-day meeting of railroad authorities from countries along the Persian Gulf-Black Sea Transport Corridor is scheduled to be held in Tehran on Tuesday and Wednesday, the International Affairs…

Azerbaijan will run the first pilot train after the Astara-Astara railroad linkup in December.

This was announced by Azeri Minister of Economic Development Shahin Mustafayev following a…

The Islamic Republic of Iran Railways said Azerbaijan will provide Iran with €500 million worth of loan for completing the Rasht-Astara rail segment as part of the International North-South…

Joint railroad projects between Russia and Iran benefit virtually all of Europe and Asia, the chairman of Islamic Republic of Iran Railways’ International Affairs Department said.

A railroad connecting the Iranian Caspian port city of Astara to an Azerbaijani city with the same name will become operational in six months, the deputy head of Islamic Republic of Iran…

A rail cargo route from Quetta in Pakistan to the city of Zahedan in eastern Iran will be launched soon as part of the Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul rail route, Pakistan’s Minister of Railways…

Azerbaijan has signed a $60-million contract with Iran to construct a rail terminal in the Iranian city of Astara, close to the common border.

It is part of a project to connect the…

The office for a working group tasked with following up the South-West Transport Corridor will be established in Tehran, an official with the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways said.

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Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine and Poland have planned the transportation of 200,000 tons of cargo by the end of 2017 via a newly-proposed transit corridor that stretches from India to the…

Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi said the under-construction railroad connection between Qazvin and Rasht will be completed and come on stream by the end of summer.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s official visit to Iran in early March 2017—his third in three years—was scheduled to include the trial run of a section of a new railroad along the Iran-…

Iran has agreed to activate a corridor stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Black Sea through Azerbaijan and Georgia.

President Hassan Rouhani and First Vice President Es’haq…

India is pulling out all stops to operationalize the International North-South Transport Corridor with a dry run planned for Thursday.

Iran and Azerbaijan inaugurated a short railroad in early March with far-reaching implications.

Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan have agreed to reduce tariffs on interstate cargo transit by 50% as part of efforts to activate the International North-South Transport Corridor, which aims to…

One of the main issues on the agenda of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s visit to Iran, which ended on March 5, was the project of the International North-South Transport Corridor, which is…

The track laying operation for the railroad connecting Iran’s northwestern city of Astara to an Azerbaijan city with the same name began in the Iranian section of the project on Thursday. …

Iran and Kazakhstan have signed a memorandum of understanding to boost inter-state transportation of rail cargo by lowering transit tariffs.

Iran is planning to lay 9,134 kilometers of railroads, a deputy minister of roads and urban development said.

Kheirollah Khademi added that track-laying of more than 3,500 kilometers of…