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Railexpo 2024 opens in Tehran
The inaugural ceremony was attended by Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash and CEO of Railways of the Islamic Republic of Iran Miad Salehi, reported Tasnim News Agency.
More than 100 domestic companies and five foreign companies from China, Russia, India, and the Republic of Azerbaijan have participated in this exhibition to showcase their latest achievements and technologies in the railway industry.
Concurrent with organizing this exhibition, the 15th Meeting of the Heads of Railway Authorities of the ECO Member States and the 9th Rail Committee Meeting of the ECO Transit Transport Coordinating Council will be held with the participation of Iran, Turkey, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
The domestically-manufactured GM locomotive engine, Model GT26, and Locomotive Microprocessor Control System (LCS) will also be unveiled in the exhibition, the report added.
Speaking in the inaugural ceremony of the event, Bazrpash noted that the road transit of the country showed a more than 58 percent growth in the previous year (ended March 19, 2024).
In this period, the country also witnessed considerable growth in the rail sector, the roads minister added.
The minister also noted that the country’s rail and road transits registered a 55-percent growth in the first two months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 19 – April 22, 2024), compared to the same period last year.
Transit via Iran also increased by 47 percent in the first month of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20-April 19)), compared to the preceding year, according to the data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA).
Based on the IRICA data, 1.6 million tons of goods were transited via the country in the mentioned month.
As previously announced by IRICA, 17.79 million tons of commodities were transited through the country in the past Iranian year of 1402.