{"id":16527,"date":"2025-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/railport-sent-its-first-train-and-became-a-key-point-of-the-baku-tbilisi-kars-corridor\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:00:00","slug":"railport-sent-its-first-train-and-became-a-key-point-of-the-baku-tbilisi-kars-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/railport-sent-its-first-train-and-became-a-key-point-of-the-baku-tbilisi-kars-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Railport sent its first train and became a key point of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars corridor."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Railport railway terminal in northwestern Turkey dispatched its first train, officially opening operations as the country\u2019s first intermodal terminal. The project was implemented by a joint venture between Turkey\u2019s Arkas and Germany\u2019s Duisport, which positions Railport as the end point of the Baku\u2013Tbilisi\u2013Kars railway corridor and a key element of international logistics.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership between Arkas and Duisport was established in 2015, but active development became possible after receiving financing in 2019: $30 million each from the EBRD and China\u2019s ICBC. Construction began in September 2023, and the total project cost was estimated at $86 million.<\/p>\n<p>Railport is being built in three stages and is designed to handle 360,000 TEU containers per year, 1.5 million tons of general cargo, 120,000 vehicles (CEU) and 125,000 trailers, making it one of Turkey\u2019s largest logistics projects and an important hub on the route between Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Railport railway terminal in northwestern Turkey dispatched its first train, officially opening operations as the country\u2019s first intermodal terminal. The project was implemented by a joint venture between Turkey\u2019s Arkas and Germany\u2019s Duisport, which positions Railport as the end point of the Baku\u2013Tbilisi\u2013Kars railway corridor and a key element of international logistics.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caucasus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}