OREANDA-NEWS. In Astana took a place the regular meeting of the Coordinating Committee for the development of the Trans-Caspian international transport route (TMTM).

The meeting was attended by the heads of railway administrations of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Aktau, Baku International Sea Trade Port, the Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping Company, Batumi Sea Port, the company "Ukrferry», Translogistic SRL, as well as representatives of the International Trans-Caspian transport consortium.

The main topic of the meeting was the "International Association of Trans-Caspian international transport route" creation.

During the discussion addressed the leaders of JSC "NC "KTZ" K.Alpysbaev, JSC "Georgian Railways" M. Bakhtadze, CJSC "BR" J. Gurbanov, CJSC "AKMP" R.Veliev, CJSC "BISTP" T.Ziyadov.

Railway administrations of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Georgia signed a memorandum of Association and adopted its Charter. Association office will be located in Astana.

It was noted that "the activities of the Association will focus on attracting transit and foreign trade cargo, development of integrated logistics products from TMTM".

It is planned that within the association will work out on issues of "an effective tariff policy, optimization of costs and value of integrated services, the creation of a single technology transportation process, contributing to the reduction of administrative barriers related to border and customs procedures and processing of cargo and containers in the ports of the play stations."

The Kazakh part informed about the implementation of the project "Construction of the ferry complex in Kuryk port and operation of universal utility ferries" commissioning of the first startup complex at the port of Kuryk till the end of 2016.

In addition, they discussed the establishment of competitive rates on TMTM. The parties agreed about preferential tariff conditions for a number of Kazakhstani goods export, including grain, oil and non-ferrous metals, through the territories of the countries - participants TMTM.