Ashgabat is hosting a meeting of the Conference of General Directors of Railways of the member countries of the Organisation for Cooperation of Railways (OSJD). The event will last until 19 April.
According to the Transport and Communications Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, special attention will be paid to the issues of professional training of the industry's staff, as well as to the issue of drafting the development strategy of the OSJD.
The experts told Daryo that on the agenda are the intensification of transit traffic, improvement of the agreement on international rail freight traffic and ensuring the competitiveness of the industry.
The aim of the OSJD, which includes 29 countries, is to develop and improve international rail transport, primarily between Europe and Asia, including combined transport.
Turkmenistan has recently become an official participant in the North-South International Transport Corridor (ITC) agreement.
The Caspian country is becoming a transport hub thanks to the opening in 2014 of the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway, the longest section of which - 700km - passes through Turkmenistan.
Ashgabat also expects the construction of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan (TAT) railway to open up markets in China and, from there, the Asia-Pacific region.
Eziz Boyarov
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