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Thursday, 06 September 2001
KAZAKHSTAN'S PRESIDENT INAUGURATES NEW CASPIAN FERRY SERVICE
By empty (9/6/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Nursultan Nazarbaev attended a ceremony in the port of Aqtau on 6 September to mark the beginning of ferry services linking Kazakhstan with the ports of Olia (Russia), Baku (Azerbaijan), and Nowshahr (Iran). He stressed the importance of those transport links for Kazakhstan's role as a transit country. The new ferry lines are part of the TRACECA transport network intended to link Central Asia and Europe via the Caucasus.
Nursultan Nazarbaev attended a ceremony in the port of Aqtau on 6 September to mark the beginning of ferry services linking Kazakhstan with the ports of Olia (Russia), Baku (Azerbaijan), and Nowshahr (Iran). He stressed the importance of those transport links for Kazakhstan's role as a transit country. The new ferry lines are part of the TRACECA transport network intended to link Central Asia and Europe via the Caucasus. (Interfax)