let's talk about the development of transit that can happen and the completion of railway crossings, which will be completed thanks to your presence. if you are interested , stay with us until the end of this discussion . thank you. you are with the midday conversation, very quickly and without introduction, i will go to my colleague ms. saki, the reporter of the sada vasima news agency's transport group, who is next to us in the adjacent studio. ms. saki, please tell me what exactly happened today. my greetings, courtesy , and respect are at your service, as well as good viewers. khabar network well, i can say that today is very promising we had a good time with exploitation. from this railway line

, because after years of operation of this railway line, we have a north-south connection through the port, which we can say we will have a combined transportation, that is, for example, through the sea, the cargo that enters our ports, especially the port. anzali through that way we can transfer to bandar abbas by rail. i can say that this operation was really a very good promise. today , i am at your service . they are completely connected and connected, this is a ring it was missing that it was 37 km, but today it is fully connected, we can say that now we can transfer cargo from the russian federation to the caspian sea, the persian gulf, and finally the indian ocean by using this railway line. since this operation was implemented, it used to take 45 days for the goods to be transported, but now it has been reduced to 25 days, which can be 30%.

when did the completion of the remaining 37 kilometers start? look at the beginning of the plan that was back in 1985, but because there are other rail plans the agenda was set, the construction of this project was stopped since 2017, i can say again that it started again in 2018, i can say that the construction was pursued more vigorously. it is time for mr. shahid raisi himself to come and do this. it is right that he would return to the astara line. in general, the conclusion of the contract in the context of the astara discussion was more powerful because our russia was supposed to invest financially in this field. this issue is up to him. he would come back, but first i can say that this the north-south corridor or the north-south corridor, it is better to say that in the year 2000, the articles of the agreement between iran, russia and

india were established, then 13 other countries came to connect to it. it means that it is so important. if you can tell us what is the railway line, see, 18 big bridges have been built on this railway line. one of the difficulties of its construction, which i was talking to the relevant authorities about, was that the area is rainy and humid in the north . the area where they were building had a swampy state because of this for the construction of the bridge the high-ranking ones were facing a little problem, but anyway, iran's engineering knowledge is always a language. 18 big bridges have been built on this route and 243 small bridges have been built on this route . how much capacity does this have in terms of passengers and in terms of do you know how much each of them is, yes, see in the year. this

railway line is more important for cargo, not that it is not used by passengers, but the importance of cargo is much more in the first year, as mr. khademi , the operational manager of the construction company, said, 3 million tons in the first year , but up to 10 million tons in the coming years. it has a cargo capacity and can carry 600,000 passengers. how much was invested, and if we want to say, for example , what is the value of the project today, how much will it be? it is worth 30,000 billion rials. it is an investment that has been made and it can be said that it is 60 thousand billion rials. it was an important point that you yourself mentioned that at several points it seems that the work was stopped, what were the reasons and what year did this happen? well, i say that this was planned since 1985, so qazvin rash should have been built first , and when qazvin rash wanted to build this line the construction of the railway was stopped, and since 1997 , it was paid again to be built, and in 1998

, the project progressed much more seriously. the governor of gilan , along with the addition of mr. fakour, may i ask you about the details of the opening that took place today. salam alaikum, in the name of allah, the most merciful, the most merciful . i offer my greetings and respect to his highness and all the dear viewers. well, today we had the honor of being at the service of the honorable head of the presidency, mr. dr. mokhbar, for the opening. a big project and a transnational project, of course , our expectation was that we would be at the service of our martyred president, so in ardebehesht

, in the presence of this nobleman, we started this project and other projects that were implemented on his first visit. but we didn't have this success , but in his memory today, this big project was put into operation in the presence of the first vice president and acting president, alhamdulillah, and it was placed in the executive work, how important is this work that has been done now and it is a very big job. some kind of connection the corridor is north to south, although it may be argued that there was already a connection from the amirabad route, but here we must say that it shortens the distance

by 56 hours. they have much easier access and the countries of the region are very careful. there are those who can use this corridor, in any case, european countries , azerbaijan, caucasus, russia, they can easily establish this connection with the persian gulf and the indian subcontinent and other countries , and from the economic point of view, it is very important for our country. how much has the travel time been reduced? how much can it help to see that this transit in the region, as i mentioned before , we will see a difference of 5-6 hours here

, while the cargo capacity was much lower in other ports, what i i received dear ones about 3. it was tons, but now it has more capacity and it can be increased up to 10 million tons, and god willing, in the next phases, when our caspian port talks, they want to create those spaces, this can be increased, and it is a very good opportunity for the countries the area is for businessmen, while in there will be space for the export and import of the country within our country, and the transit of goods from the northern countries of the country to the persian gulf and international open waters and other neighboring countries will be provided here . alhamdulillah, this is also

a good welcome. didn't you , our dear friends in shipping, announce that many companies that do export work are willing to use this route. god willing, thank you mr. fakour stay with us. we are in contact with mr. khademi, deputy minister of roads and urban development and ceo of the country's cash transport infrastructure construction and development company . greetings, mr. khademi. i would like to thank you for the strategic importance of connecting the persian gulf to the caspian countries. to have yes, hello, to your honorable colleagues and all dear viewers, and since i arrived late, i was supposed to participate in the program directly, but it was not possible because we were on a flight. well, today

, with the presence of the honorable head of the presidency, one of the most important the most railway projects in the country in terms of connecting in. and it connected kharilmunu to the sea . this route was important for us from two aspects, one was the international aspect and the first was the domestic aspect in the discussion of the rail network. in the international sector, just as our friends announced in the program , it was the last missing link that existed in the corridor from the north to the south sea to our sea, and this corridor, which actually started from norweh to bochum, helsinki, and in 2002, with an agreement three countries and then added countries, it was supposed to be 13,000 kilometers , practically all of this route. ok, he was passing through russia it comes to the caspian sea and from there

it crossed the territory of the islamic republic and then reached india through the sea. this is the route. well, mr. khademi, if you could speak a little louder so that we can hear your voice more clearly, thank you. yes, only part of this. the defined international corridor that remained as the missing link in the ghaili sector was the same between roshda and the caspian. in any case, it was put into operation today, and in this way, we have a combined attack program from asia, in fact, east, from india, in fact, by sea and then from the soil of the islamic republic of iran. by rail, you can go from the southern ports of iran to kasbin port in the west of the mazandaran sea, and from there you can go to the caspian sea. to astrakhan, russia, and from there to the interior of russia and

europe by ghail, and in this way, this missing link has actually been solved, and it can be a good route with a capacity to carry international cargo that we transit it is very important and profitable for the country. this international role was the path that they had before, that is, the path that works as it is. i already announced for the transfer of cargo in this corridor that i mentioned with nearly 45 the route used to take a day for a ship to go, and it is happening now. from the swedish channel, our forecast is 45 days . if this route, god willing, is opened and the load comes, reduce the time by at least 20 days to 20 days. he finds that the number is actually more feasible, that is , the route will take 25 days, and the price, in fact, the quote for this route has decreased by almost 30% , so it will

be a very attractive route for transporting cargo, and it can be very competitive and very comparable be with you on other routes and our prediction is that it can be a door in fact , it is an alternative route for the current routes that this route actually has an effective attack, which is actually another part of our rire corridor that was completed , especially considering the importance of completing the

north-south rail corridors, having this sea-to-sea means , in fact, the ports of the south chabahar port country can connect imam khomeini port to the west of mazandara sea and the caspian sea through rail and increase the capacity for cargo entering the country or exporting from the country to the south or north . the arrangement was actually a good job that was about demand and alhamdulillah today to the completion of our project was 37 km of the route that was completed from 307 km now , which was not long, but considering that it was passing through irrigated lands in agricultural areas that were completely muddy on both sides, it was a very difficult task there. it was done , the clearing of the bed should have been done, the acquisition of the road should have been done, big bridges

should have been built to cross these rivers and areas , and there was agriculture in the living areas, and you know that gilan is a land where the land is completely useless. no, all the fields are agricultural, that's why intersections were needed there are a lot of non-cooperative intersections in the road. there are almost 18 big bridges on the road, and in fact, for the implementation of this project, nearly 3 thousand billion tomans have been spent since 2018. congratulations to the dear people of the whole country, especially gilan province. one point you mentioned in your orders is the completion of the crossings. now is the fate of the rosh astara railway. for example

, what happened to shlamcheh basra? if you tell us, when will it be completed? if so, when will it be completed? mention it, you know, for this discussion that i mentioned, we came to establish a balance, so that we actually came up with a strategy we had one short-term connection and fast use of this, in fact, this is the condition that we established this route with a short connection and in fact less time , so that it is sea to sea, but in order for us to be able to connect the railway route to the country of the railways of the republic of azerbaijan. let's give it a year and practically from the southern ports i.e. bandar avaz and bandar imam khomeini, we can connect to the border of astara through the reed route and from there we can go to the interior of azerbaijan by rail until moscow . a part that we started from both sides in the past

it is about 22 kilometers, the next part is also the acquisition parts are being done and an agreement is being made that god willing we will be able to continue the route with the investment and the loan that russia has considered. god willing, how much physical progress is there now the progress is very low. we are still in the process of acquiring the route. the physical progress is close to 67. in fact , that is the project. where did the discussion of financing go? well, we have the same discussions. we need these permits inside russia we have to get, in fact , we have signed an intergovernmental filma contract, and now this week, some parts of that company will be stationed in rashab

astara, where they can carry out geotechnical investigations and that. the studies that they need to complete and in this way we can, god willing, they will give us a price and based on the specified time, for example, when this happened, it was supposed to be done in 6 months at the most, which actually required more work. and they requested that this study should last for another 6 months and with more precision can you actually give us the price so that we can conclude the contract from this 6 months. how much is left or finished? second , one month has actually started, almost a month of 40 days has started, but 6 months actually ended. the second is that they can determine implementation plans

. you also say how much progress has been made in shalamcheh basreh and how much is left for shalamcheh basreh of the islamic republic of railways company. it works, but it's not my area of ​​work , you can get the information from the respected general manager and ceo dear rahen of the islamic republic of iran, mr. dr. matchakram , ask you that, god willing, khademi , deputy minister of roads and urban development, the directorate of the country's infrastructure construction and development company, who was with us in this conversation, if you agree, let's go and meet to agree on a report. let's return to our conversation with guests of the program, let's continue, the construction of rash caspian railway started 15 years ago. the deputy minister of roads says that the reason for the delay in the implementation of this project is to give priority to other projects, including the ghazvin rushd railway . let's get there , but because we were forced to do it with issues environmentally, we could not reach anzali port from an area called pirbazar, we changed the route

towards caspian port. the construction of this project started seriously in 2017. the line has 18 intersections, big bridges and 243 waterways built in 35 about 18 big bridges or intersections have been completed in the kilometer that we have completed, i.e. bridges that are above 6-7 meters, some of which are the tallest, nearly 270 meters, the bridge that was built on the main anzali road. since when have you been working here? we worked quickly with exploitation. from this railway line, 37 kilometers of the caspian railway connection to the gulf fars has been established for the first time and is the basis for the expansion of economic relations between eurasia and the southern countries of the persian gulf and the ocean.

it has a very strategic role in the field of transporting goods from the sea to our sea . according to the announcement of the ministry of roads and urban development, the daily value of riri rushd's connection to the caspian port of anzali is estimated at 5 thousand billion tomans. leila saki of sed and sima news agency. yes, we have seen the report of my colleague. we heard here in our studio that mr. salehi, an eurasian expert, was added to our group . hello, please tell me about the importance of completing these passages that we are talking about and what happened this morning. hello and as a courtesy to you and all the dear viewers, see , this was very strange. from the historical point of view, our national highway came from the southern port, bandar arab, until the growth was finished, that is , it was not connected to our border, which is astara. no , it was connected to anzali, which is actually the port of the moon sea. this was a very big question, and in fact, along the 6,000

km from north to south, we had a disconnection in the middle, and it actually made the passage of containers and bulk cargo in this route economically unimportant. therefore, the importance of selling russian oil to china is extremely high, especially considering that after the developments in western and eastern europe it has increased by about 5 times and practically, due to the sanctions and changes in the monetary system, this money is accumulating more in the form of rupees in india, that is, the russians now have a large amount of rupees in india, which they are looking for ways to buy from other parts of the world. some of them will probably be successful, but most of them will not be successful and they will have to become an economy from india itself, which is a developing economy. the supply of goods is developing at a very high speed , which means that it is very easy for us

to imagine the next 30-40 years in such a way that a large amount of goods will flow from india to russia, especially as you know, historically, the indian army's equipment is basically russian, that is, even though india has somehow been one of the satellites or one of hampin in the past years. no, i recommend all the viewers to watch the important speeches of the world economic forum in daws switzerland , where mr. jashankar

gives the answer in a very strange way and with a lot of intensity. it means that a few months ago , in dawes, there was a joint meeting of 3 or 4 people, one of the members of which was mr. jashankar, the foreign minister of india, and one of the members was mr. blinken, the foreign minister of the united states. that is, there is a strong contrast with literature. indians are completely standing against the west about the fact that their cooperation with russia will continue because their oil has increased fivefold , their army is bought and equipped entirely by russia. to have the sale of the army, and for this reason , it seems that within the next 40-50 years, that is , the flow of goods in the next few decades. from india to russia and the flow of energy from russia to india will continue, and naturally instead of 14,15,000 km.

it is more logical for them to bypass novrasi and take the black sea to kahla. there is a shorter route that passes through iran, which is faster and cheaper . yes, thank you . from the technical aspects of the incident that happened, this exploitation that took place , how much should we look at this economically, how much should we look at it politically, according to the explanations that mr. salehi mentioned, i would like to offer you my courtesy and service to my friends, while congratulating the green province of gilan. i would like to ask you to look at the debate and discussion for today, we only have

quantity wings in this system that happened in the caspian. it is necessary and necessary for him to load from there and go to bandarab, which means a loading order and a shipment, in the case that you, if this supplementary line comes to your service, it would be connected to the rail, which means that it is a dam.

it was a big job, it's really a big job, but the completion of this work is important, which means that it must be connected to the so-called port roro system , so that the russian wagon itself can go around and not come again, have a loading inspection in, for example, your service in astrakhan and from there. come again we serve as a loading and unloading service when arriving at roro ships such as akda port. azerbaijan is doing this. even though this structure has been built for many years, our amirabad port is still connected. they have not yet been able to connect it so that kazakh , russian, or azerbaijani wagons can come and go independently with a bogie change. well, they have seen these things. it hasn't happened. now, friends are creating some discussions and mental fantasy for him. today they say that sir.

the growth path of astra should be built, the growth path of astara , when it is built, we have so much burden , it's not like that at all, apart from the topic of sanctions, apart from the topic fetif, but during the time of the soviet union , our language is pahlavi, from the nakhjovan-jolfa route, we had four to 5 million to 5 million tons of cargo entering the interior. well, last year , take care of our railway route . we had loads of russian wagons hiding among the coal that was newly created in turkmenistan. iranian wagons should go and load them. now we all pass .

may god forgive you in transit, mr. rostam ghasemi when he was talking about this in rispina hotel 3 years ago, i said, sir, tell the bosses to invest themselves and express themselves. in this investment, for example, you are doing business , give them 20 years, give them 100 years, give them 100 years, let them express themselves. let them invest , we have a group called azerbaijan, this group is azerbaijan. no, in the political dimension , there is no political dimension at all, the infrastructure dimension cannot be answered at all . yes, i am asking my professors to put a plan in front of them. east russian sat means that if you want to take with you from an area called ekaterinburg, for example

, i would suggest that you have to come 360 ​​km to astara. well, when you come , you will eat 320 km. from here, 320 km to the border of iran. a non-specific issue is dealt with. regarding the next rail, we do not have hindus as your russian market. the city of noumi, which is currently being built in saudi arabia, is being built. it means investing 2 billion there. we will have the first train from the border. the center of siberia, russia, from the city of yekaterinburg chelavinsk in 10 days and five hours the train departed from chelavince and arrived at the very beautiful service station for 10 days and 5 hours .