The minister said that development of trade and transit is
one of the necessities of country’s economic prosperity. Therefore, development
of the capacity of transit roads and also railway network has been put on the
government’s agenda specifically and this issue will be continued until the
last working day of the current government.”
Connecting Qazvin-Rasht Railway to Anzali port and
connection of this railway to Astara in Gilan province is one of the salient
projects which is under construction, the roads minister highlighted.
He expressed his hope that the connection of Caspian Port to
the railway network will become operational in the current administration.
He went on to say that the Rasht-Astara Railway project is
under construction according to the scheduled program, adding, “Connection of
country’s railway to Afghanistan railway network as well as the connection of
Chabahar to Zahedan by rail line is under construction and would be put into
operation soon.”
He further pointed out that the completion of construction
operation of highway and freeway network is underway so that North-South and
West-East corridors will benefit from the transportation capacities of these
routes.
The attractiveness of using Iran’s opportunity in transit
will be doubled for Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) with the completion of
infrastructures, Eslami stressed.