Beglarian met with Iran’s First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri, Roads and Urban Development Minister Abbas Akhoundi and Communications and Information Technology Minister Mahmoud Vaezi during the January 20-21 trip to Tehran. According to Beglarian’s press service, he discussed with Akhoundi “the creation of a Persian Gulf-Black Sea corridor.”
The Armenian and Iranian governments will work together in facilitating cargo shipments between Europe and India that would be carried out through the Persian Gulf, Iran, Armenia, Georgia and the Black Sea, he said.
According to our rough calculations, the cost of this transit route should be lower than other routes offered to Iran, which, as you know, would pass through Turkey and Azerbaijan, the Armenian minister noted.
In Beglarian’s words, upgrading the Agarak-Kajaran section alone would significantly shorten travel from the Iranian border to Yeraskh, a railway station about 50 kilometers southeast of Yerevan.
Under the ambitious transit project discussed with Tehran, he said, goods from India and Iran would be transported to Yeraskh by trucks and then shipped to the Georgian Black Sea port of Poti by rail.
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