railway middle east – Rail Turkey En

Legios enters Iranian market

Legios, leading freight wagon producer from Czech Republic, has opened a sales office in Teharan, Iran.

There are many difficulties to be solved before Turkey will become a freight railway hub..

Turkey is not the only country which has a target of being railway hub in the region..

The crisis of the most popular transportation mode, trucks, between Turkey and Iran increased the interest in trains..

After closure of international rail transports to Syria and Iraq, the transhipment terminal Nusaybin at border had to be closed to railway traffic.

TCDD is going to make discount for transports to Iran.

Iran Railways announced new internatioanal tariff which will hit railway traffic to Iran.

Viking Train will access to Turkey and Middle East in cooperation with TCDD

The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway is told to be opened by the end of 2014.

The railway traffic to Middle East from Europe and Turkey is about to dead. The fall was painfull. But the rise is about to start.