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AzerbaijanRehabilitation of EastWest Rail Corridor Hadji Huseynov, Senior Infrastructure Specialist, World Bank

The European Azerbaijan Society Business Forum Azerbaijan Through the Eyes of International Investors 14 October, 2015, Brussels

Azerbaijan – Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Project

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Azerbaijan – World Bank financed Rail Trade and Transport Facilitation Project • The largest WB’s project in South Caucasus ($670 million loan)

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Azerbaijan – Rail Trade and Transport Facilitation Project • Project Financing: $670 mln IBRD loan + $623 mln Government share • Project Timeline: 2009-2018 • Component I - Rehabilitation of East-West Main Line: 503 km of double track (1006km in total), new AC power supply and new signaling system; • Component II: Procurement of 50 new AC freight locomotives; • Component III: Institutional modernization;

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Azerbaijan – Rail Trade and Transport Facilitation Project • Project Status (achievements as of today): -

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390 km of track rehabilitated (work is continued); construction of AC power supply and new signaling systems is advancing; Principal agreement for the delivery of AC freight locomotives is concluded The feasibility study for the assessment of locomotive workshop needs and new maintenance guidance is under preparation;

- Institutional Modernization • Railways transformed into closed JSC with holding structure (to be continued); • New charter of accounts, asset revaluation and first international audit have been completed; • Introduction of new computerized International Financing Reporting Standards (IFRS) is rapidly advancing with plan to switch to ORACLE based ERP by end on 2015; 5 • Oil spills response capacity has been substantially strengthened.