The Turkish State Railways (TCDD) have evacuated close to 40,000 people from the earthquake-stricken area in Southern Turkey over the past few days, while they have also dispatched multiple freight trains with goods for the...Read more
The growing transport demand through the Middle Corridor and the new services launched provide a positive outlook for 2022. A general meeting of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) association forecasted a doubling of container...Read more
Turkey has a master plan to “breathe fresh air in Black Sea connections and become a Middle Corridor superpower”. Investing in and developing rail freight is a step toward growing the Middle Corridor. However, “focusing...Read more
Turkey is pouring 198 billion US dollars into its transport sector, and rail is the big winner. “Turkey will become a logistics superpower by 2053”, claimed Turkish president Erdogan. “The Turkish railway network will more...Read more
The Lithuanian and Turkish railways are very close to sealing a collaboration to transport semi-trailers between the two countries. The aim is to utilise existing services and link Istanbul to Chernomorsk in Ukraine and further...Read more
The Turkish minister of transport and infrastructure, Adil Karaismailoğlu, announced that his country will increase rail freight investments by 60 per cent. The development results from the growing traffic in the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway line...Read more
New light is shed on the case of the Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad train. The service that promised a lot but never happened seems never to have been feasible, and if there is someone to blame, that is...Read more
Thirty Turkish logistics companies are teaming up to improve the competition conditions in the country’s rail freight sector. The main problem that they face is the lack of a level playing field and transparency from...Read more
The Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad train project would begin operations on 4 March, but the first trip was cancelled multiple times. What could be the possible reasons for this situation? According to the customers, it was all a...Read more
A regular container train along the Trans-Caspian rail freight corridor towards Europe could be launched next year. The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) starts from south east Asia and China, and runs through Kazakhstan, by the...Read more
