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Expert Group Meeting on Harmonization of the Rules and Regulations for Facilitation of IntenrationalRailway Transport Bangkok,4-5 Sep. 2017

Harmonization of Rules and Regulations

Railways of Iran (RAI)

International Affairs

By: Mozhgan Kordbacheh

Deputy Director General

Railway of Iran at a glance

➢Length of the lines: 11 000 km

➢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: 8% to

20% by 2025


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

- 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 non-

observance 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

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


- 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.

Ways to facilitate rail traffic:

RAI Accessions to Int’l

Organizations and Int’l Rules


Asia-Europe Corridor

SMGSCIM

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

UKRAINE

ROMANIA odessa

constanta

varnaPoti

Bandar-e-Abbas

Persian Gulf-Iran-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Poti Port-Black Sea-Ukraine-Poland

Ways to facilitate rail transport

Combined transportation

South-West Corridor

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


• 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 traffic

Launching container 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 Ghorianstation, 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.


• 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 forinformation exchange trough web service

• Wagons exchange is carried out in Kapikoy


Equipping border crossing stations

Razi with Turkey

• International transport in Zahedan in west part ofIran

• Supplying crane for loading/unloading cargoes

• Installing weight at Zahedan Station

• In Zahedan cargoes are transshipped


Equipping border crossing stationsZahedan with Pakistan

4900 hec.Area

90 million tons

(annually)Port Capacity

3.300،000TEU(6.000.000 TEU up

to 2016)

Container

Terminal

Capacity

24 hec.Warehouse

/Hangar

220 hec.Open Yard

45 kmRail

8 – 17 mDraft

40 Berth

Shahid Rajayee Port

11000 hec.Area

55 million tons

(annually)Port Capacity

700،000 TEU

Container

Terminal

Capacity

52 hec.Warehouse

/Hangar

210 hec.Open Yard

120 kmRail

13.5 mDraft

37 Berth

Imam Khomeini Port

1060 hec.Area

200.000

TEU

Container

Capecity

7.5 million

ton Port Throughput

62000 m2Warehouse

/Hangar

16 kmRailways

200 hec.Open Yard

6 mDraft

10Berth

Amirabad Port

• 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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