OREANDA-NEWS. September 11, 2007. The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbaev announced that Kazakhstan plans to build a new railroad from the Kazakhstan coast of the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf through Turkmenistan and Iran.

It is planned that during the visit of N. Nazarbaev to Turkmenistan on 11 September 2007 the agreement on the construction of the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan section of the railroad will be signed.