ArmInfo. Last year, the South Caucasian Railway transported half a million passengers, of which 58,000 were in international traffic and 450,000 - within Armenia. Director General of the South Caucasus Railway (SCR) CJSC Alexei Melnikov announced during a press conference on June 28.
Noticing that the positive trend continues, Melnikov said that already this year they managed to exceed the last year's indicators for international traffic. <Summer transportation began, in my opinion, quite well. Today, for example, an international train from Armenia to Georgia has already transported more than 200 passengers, which is very remarkable>, the head of the SCR emphasized.
In this regard, he said that this year an agreement was reached with the Georgian partners on the organization of railway communication every other day from Armenia to Georgia. Last year, rail trips were carried out twice a week.
Speaking about new initiatives in the domestic market, the head of SCR reminded that from now on, it will be possible totravel to the direction of Shorzha, Sevan directly from the Yerevan railway station, while previously this route was possible only through the Almast stop.
Speaking about new initiatives in the domestic market, the head of SCR reminded that from now on it will be possible to travel to Shorzha, Sevan directly from the Yerevan railway station, while previously this route was possible only through the Almast Railway Station. Such a decision, according to Alexei Melnikov, was made based on the requests of both citizens and guests of the capital.
"We hope that passengers will positively assess our changes, and in the future we will continue to do everything in our power to make our passengers feel comfortable," he stressed. It should be noted that, as SCR reported earlier, for the first 5 months of this year, the growth in the number of passengers compared to the same period in 2022 amounted to 9% or 193.5 thousand passengers.