Harmonization of Rules and Regulations Railways of Iran (RAI) International Affairs By: Mozhgan Kordbacheh Deputy Director General
Length of the lines: 11 000 km Railway of Iran at a glance Under construction lines: 6500 km Rail network length by 2025: 25 000 km Passenger transport increase: from 25 Million passengers to 27 MP by the end of 2017 Freight transport increase: from 40 MT to 62 MT by the end of 2017 Railway share increase for freight: 12% to 30% by 2025 Railway share increase for passenger: 20% by 2025 8% to
Iran rail connection with other neighboring networks Sarakhs and Inche Brun border with Turkmenistan and CIS Jolfa border and rail connection with Azerbaijan (Nakhjavan) Razai border with Turkey and connection to Europe Mirjaveh border and rail connection with Pakistan and Indian subcontinent Rail connection with Iraq and Afghanistan Imam Port and connection with int l waters Bandar Abbas Port and connection with int l waters Amirabad Port and connection with Caspian Sea
Existing obstacles preventing smooth transport in international traffic - Lack of uniformity of customs rules and regulations in transit routes - Non-membership of the countries in international regulations/rules - Lack of coordination in rules and nonobservance from a country to another one - Physical obstacles along rail transport between Europe and Asia: standard gauge of 1435 mm in the Railways of OTIF member states and broad gauge of 1520 mm in the Railways of CIS Countries
Existing obstacles preventing smooth transport in international traffic Break of gauge at the border points and insufficiency of bogie exchanging system Non-completion of missing links along rail routes and corridors Weak infrastructures along the routes Diversity of fleet technical specifications in the region countries Lengthy bogie exchange time at border points Lack of enough budget to complete missing links, equip fleet and border terminals Trains' long delays at borders due to customs procedures and different rules of the countries Non competitiveness of rail tariffs compared to other modes of transport like road transport Lack of joint companies among the countries for combined transport Political issues and the consequences
Ways to facilitate rail traffic: RAI Accessions to Int l Organizations and Int l Rules - Accession of RAI to Railways Cooperation organization (OSJD) in 1998 and Agreement on Freight International Traffic by Railway (SMGS) in 2001 after inauguration of Mashad-Sarakhs rail line in 1996 to realize international transport and freight transit to Central Asian countries - Accession of RAI to OTIF in 1986 and COTIF Convention and its 7 appendices in 2001.
Asia-Europe Corridor CIM SMGS CIM
- Regulating Uniform rail law with the objective of preparing rail laws at global level and connection of European rail corridor routes to Asia by UNECE -Organization of several meetings with involvement of CIT, OTIF and OSJD - Study of the law in the Railways of Iran
ROMANIA constanta varna UKRAINE odessa Poti Ways to facilitate rail transport Combined transportation South-West Corridor Bandar-e-Abbas Persian Gulf-Iran-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Poti Port-Black Sea-Ukraine-Poland
North-South Corridor Mumbai-Bandar Abbas Port (Iran)- Astara-Moscow towards Finland, Belarus, Latvia, Estonia
RAI Discount Policy for development of rail transit 30% on cotton transit 35% on transit Sulphur 30% on the fertilizers transited towards the southern sea ports of the country 50% for the freight transported to/from Turkey Special discount for ITI route containers
Ways to facilitate rail traffic Launching container trains Launching container train from China to Iran: 28 January 2016 from East of China (Yuwei) to Tehran. 10400 Km in 14 days Launching container train from Mumbai to Moscow through Astara and Azerbaijan, a combined transport: September 2016 Operation of Nakhjavan-Mashshad passenger train (Azerbaijan-Iran): 5 January 2017. Setting up working group for train movement from Iran to Germany Moving of tourist trains from Europe to Iran: since 2014. 13 trains
Ways to facilitate rail transport Completing missing links Rail connection with Afghanistan - Construction of Sangan in Iran up to the border of Afghanistan namely Shamtiq finished. - From Afghanistan border up to Ghorian station, 30 km in length is nearly finished and will be opened this month. -The rest of the line up to Jeno is 30 km the infrastructure is finished and superstructure shall be started this month. Rail connection with Azerbaijan Qazvin-Rasht section has a 95% progress, 5 km remained. Astara-Astara section is nearly finished.
Ways to facilitate rail traffic Equipping border crossing stations Sarakhs with Turkmenistan - 2 bogie- changing stations 5 km from the border line. (New bogie change station with 24 sets of jacks and original bogie change station with 25 sets of jacks) - 4 lines of the bogie change stations - Capacity to deal with 200 wagons per 24 hours each. - Present capacity for change of bogie systems to total of 400 wagons per day - Bogie maintaining capacity :6000 - Capacity to deal with 7.5 million tons of freight on yearly basis.
Equipping border crossing stations Razi with Turkey 3 lines for accepting and dispatching trains 7 parking lines each with capacity of 45 to 50 wagons It is agreed a system to be set up in 3 months for information exchange trough web service Wagons exchange is carried out in Kapikoy
Equipping border crossing stations Zahedan with Pakistan International transport in Zahedan in west part of Iran Supplying crane for loading/unloading cargoes Installing weight at Zahedan Station In Zahedan cargoes are transshipped
Shahid Rajayee Port Imam Khomeini Port Amirabad Port Area 4900 hec. Area 11000 hec. Area 1060 hec. Port Capacity 90 million tons (annually) Port Capacity 55 million tons (annually) Container Capecity 200.000 TEU Container Terminal Capacity Warehouse /Hangar 3.300 000TEU (6.000.000 TEU up to 2016) 24 hec. Container Terminal Capacity Warehouse /Hangar 700 000 TEU 52 hec. Port Throughput Warehouse /Hangar 7.5 million ton 62000 m 2 Open Yard 220 hec. Open Yard 210 hec. Railways 16 km Rail 45 km Rail 120 km Open Yard 200 hec. Draft 8 17 m Draft 13.5 m Draft 6 m Berth 40 Berth 37 Berth 10
Accelerating the construction of new rail lines and complement the missing links such as Qazvin-Rasht-Astara, Harat Mazar sharif and Van lake Project Cooperation among the Regional International Organizations such as UIC OSJD OTIF, Strengthening and equipping border stations Developing Container transportation and obstacles removing from border terminals Solving border problems and customs, Providing facilities for customs formalities Decreasing goods travel time Planning scheduled regular trains
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