MINSK, 26 November (BelTA) - A delegation from Belarusian Railways took part in the 83rd meeting of the CIS Railway Transport Council in Baku, BelTA learned from the press center of Belarusian Railways.
The event, held on 25-26 November, was attended by the heads of the railway administrations of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Estonia, as well as senior officials from the CIS Executive Committee, the International Confederation of Railway Workers' Unions, and the Organization for Cooperation between Railways (OSJD).
The Belarusian delegation was led by head of Belarusian Railways Valery Verenich.
The council meeting formulated coordinated actions for the railways of the CIS, Georgia, Latvia, Estonia, and Iran regarding the organization of international passenger and freight transport, the joint use of freight car and container fleets, the management of mutual settlements for transportation and services rendered, and the establishment of unified regulatory documents.
Discussions covered the performance of the railway network over the past nine months, mutual settlements between railway administrations, the implementation of tasks for the Express International passenger transport integration system, and the results of the numerical census of freight cars. Measures aimed at improving the organization of the transportation process and the efficient use of rolling stock were also determined.
Among the approved documents were the freight train formation plan and the routing procedures for international freight car flows, the international container train formation plan, schedules of international intermodal trains: container, trailer-on-flatcar, and mixed, as well as the plan for scientific and technical development of the railway administrations participating in the council’s work for 2026, and other documents.
Within the framework of the meeting, working sessions were held on issues of bilateral cooperation, the organization of railway transport, and mutual settlements with the leadership of the railway administrations of Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. A trilateral meeting of the shareholders of UTLC ERA was also held to discuss the project’s functioning and its strategic development.
Photo by Belarusian Railways
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