The number of trucks crossing the Turkmen-Iranian border has increased 3 times in a month
Turkmen trucks have resumed movement across the border with Iran at the Serakhs-Serakhs border crossing after a three-year break due to the pandemic, and this movement is growing, which indicates the expansion of trade and economic relations between the two countries.
Turkmenistan also abolished a duty of $ 1.5 per tonne-kilometer of Iranian cargo passing through its territory, which also contributed to an increase in cargo flows, the news site Iran Front Page (IFP News) reports.
According to the acting governor of the Iranian Serakhs Hassan Nurizadeh, the number of trucks crossing this border crossing in September was 200 per day, and in October it reached 600.
He also noted that more than half of these trucks are Iranian, and the rest come from other countries, including Turkey.
In early October 2022, Tehran hosted the first ministerial summit on transit cooperation between Iran and five Central Asian countries – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan. During the meeting, the parties agreed to increase transit to 20 million tons of cargo per year.
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