Rail Transport in Iran

The railroads of Iran and Azerbaijan will be connected in a month, according to Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi.

The two country’s rail networks will…

The construction of Iran’s biggest rail bridge will be completed in a fortnight, a deputy minister of roads and urban development announced.

Kheirollah Khademi added that the project has…

A 10-kilometer railroad connecting Iran’s northwestern city of Astara to an Azeri city with the same name will become operational in three months, according to Abbas Nazari, an official with the…

Although Iran and Azerbaijan have made considerable efforts for connecting the two countries through railroads, it appears that the mission is unlikely to be completed by 2020.

Tehran…

Iran, Azerbaijan and Georgia are planning to start operating a long-delayed corridor that will carry cargo from the Black Sea – between Eastern/Southeastern Europe and West Asia – to the Persian…

Construction of a railway bridge across the Astarachay River near the Iran-Azerbaijan border and as part of the so-called International North-South Transport Corridor will be completed by…

The eighth meeting of Iran-Russia Comprehensive Transport Committee concludes in Tehran on Wednesday. During the three-day event, transport executives and officials from the two countries…

Efforts to utilize Iran’s transportation capacities are gaining momentum, with multilateral meetings with Europe, Turkey and CIS states held in Tehran in recent days focusing on transit…

The balance in the Caucasus is changing. With Iran emerging from the malaise of sanctions, it is reaching north and becoming more assertive. Russia, too, is changing tack, aligning with…

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the next presidential summit between Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia will be held in Tehran.

Zarif, who was a member of the political and economic…

President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Sunday to attend trilateral talks today with Moscow and the host country, mainly focusing on a massive project to build the International…

At a meeting of Azerbaijani, Russian and Iranian presidents, to be held August 8 in Baku, the International North-South Transportation Corridor, which connects the three countries, is likely to…

Tehran and Baku have drafted a plan for financing and implementing a key railroad project connecting Iran’s two northern cities of Rasht and Astara in a meeting between Iran’s deputy minister of…

Negotiations to finalize foreign investment deals Iran recently signed with global construction and transportation companies to help upgrade the country’s underdeveloped railroads are making…

Iran and the International Bank of Azerbaijan have agreed on the outlines of a $500 million loan for the construction of Rasht-Astara railroad, said the deputy minister of roads and urban…

Azerbaijan’s Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev was due to arrive in Iran on Wednesday, Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohsen Pakayeen said.

Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine signed a memorandum of understanding on implementing the International North-South Transport Corridor project in a meeting in Azeri capital Baku on Tuesday…

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has issued a decree for accelerating the construction of the Azerbaijani section of the International North-South Transport Corridor in cooperation with Iran…

Amid a severe shortage of government resources and domestic private sector capital, foreign direct investments are needed to expand Iran’s railroad infrastructure.

Although a developed…

Iran and Azerbaijan reached an agreement to push forward with the so-called North-South Transport Corridor, according to Iran's Ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohsen Pakayin.

The much-awaited International North-South Transport Corridor through Iran has been set in motion, with New Delhi, Tehran, Moscow and 10 other states at a recent meeting in Delhi approving…

Iran and Turkmenistan railway officials explored avenues for expansion of trade through the recently inaugurated Iran-Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan railway during their official meeting in the small…

The long-awaited transnational railway linking Central Asia with the Persian Gulf was officially inaugurated on Wednesday in a ceremony at a remote train station on the border of Iran and…

Officials from Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan have agreed to complete railway projects that will eventually help connect traders across the three nations.

Iran Mercantile Exchange trading floor has been inaugurated in Anzali Free Industrial Zone. The floor is to turn to a reference pricing platform for basic goods imported from CIS and the…