The line’s capacity has increased fivefold following an upgrade, but freight volumes remain well below its design capacity. The main constraints now lie less on the railway itself than at ports, border crossings and in the management of the wider Middle Corridor. The Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway, conceived as an overland bridge between Asia and Europe bypassing Russia, has upgraded infrastructure and a growing flow of containers...

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