Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK), which was described as a project to re-imagine the historical Silk Road, the first train started working.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikasvili attended the opening ceremony of Baku in Alat port.
At the first stage, the railroad is designed to carry 1 million passengers and 6.5 million tons of cargo annually.
The capacity is planned to be increased to 3 million passengers and 17 million tonnes by 2034.
The potential for international transport to reach 50 million tons per year through the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars rail link between Turkey, Asia, the Caucasus and European countries will emerge.
