Friday, January 27 2017 15:40

ArmInfo. The prospective of bilateral cooperation improvement and arrangement of multimodal transportations to Iran from European countries and back were  discussed on the margins of the meeting held on January 24 by  business representatives of Iran, Armenia and South Caucasus  Railway   JSC. The meeting was arranged  by joint initiative of Armenian  Ministry of Transport, Communications and Iranian Embassy to Armenia  and SCRW JSC. 

The activities of SCRW, main achievements of the Company, range of  services offered was presented to attendants, particularly, in  respect to cargo transportations to Iran and backwards. 

Opening the meeting, Ilya Keperis, the Deputy  Director  of  SCRW  on    Finance and Economy, stated that starting from 2008  the company has  invested in Armenia about USD 250 mln USD, and appears also as an  active participant of logistics market: a fast container  train   works on Georgian line, appropriate tariffs are concorded with  Georgia, services comprising other transport (vehicles, aircraft,  vessels) are also supplied.  In late 2016 the first multimodal  transportation from Europe to Iran has been implemented.  SCRW  options were presented to attendants by Dmitri  Gvozdev, who  mentioned  that the company supplies full range of  transportation  services, particularly, in respect to the implementation of  multimodal cargo transportations, cargo  transportations throughout  CIS countries. Currently a single package product in respect to  implementation of transit fees for Iranian companies is under  development.  

 "The routs we offer give opportunities to save USD 2000   percontainer, and to reduce the shipment time down for  10-19 days. A  simplified documents procedure is also applied here. The option and  the tools of payments  for multimodal transportations were presented  by Mellat bank representative.  Attendants of the meeting exchanged  opinions due to the issues of mutual interest.