Turkmenistan, China intend to increase volume of cargo transportation

Chinese President Xi Jinping and President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov have called for an increase in the volume of cargo transportation.

According to the signed statement, the parties noted that infrastructure interconnectedness is a new point of growth in the relations of comprehensive strategic partnership between Turkmenistan and China, and also stressed the need to accelerate the approval of the draft agreement between the Governments of Turkmenistan and China on international road transport, according to the state-run Turkmenistan Today.

The joint statement which was signed during Berdimuhamedov's visit to Beijing, also noted the need to intensify cooperation between the two countries in the field of connecting roads and cross-border transport, increasing the number of flights and the volume of transportation of China-Kyrgyzstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway container trains and international multimodal transport China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan.

Furthermore, the importance of continuing cooperation within organizations such as CAREC and OSJD was noted in the signed document.