SCR and Georgian railway intended to increase the quality of transport services

YEREVAN, March 26. /ARKA/. CJSC “South-Caucasian Railway” and Georgian railway develop joint measures of transport services quality increase.

In the frames of the meeting on March 22-23 representatives of SCR and “Georgian railway” Ltd on the head of General Director Shevket Shaydullin and Irakli Ezugbaya discussed broad specter of issues related to cargo and passengers transportation, information and communication technologies in Tbilisi.

SCR and “Georgian railway” made appointments on the creation of working group which will deal with marketing analysis and definition of measures for the increase of cargo flow between Georgia and Armenia.

The main topic of the meeting became organization of upcoming seasonal route “Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan”.

The parties agreed on sale of tickets by “round trip” for passengers train “Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan”.

Special attention was paid to the issue of time reduction of route Yerevan-Tbilisi.

Managers of the companies mentioned the importance of experience and information exchange with the aim of strengthening of further cooperation, creation of equal access and competition for both parties and quality increase of transport services.

Concession management of “Armenian railway” is implemented by CJSC “South Caucasian Railway” which is 100% affiliate of Open JSC “Russian Railway”. SCR accepted the railway stock of CJSC “Armenian railway” on its balance from June 1, 2008 according to Concession Agreement signed on February 13, 2008. The terms of concession management is for 30 years with the right of prolongation for another 10 years. --0--