Orumiyeh-Sero highway facilitates Iran, Turkey road link

Iran is to inaugurate the Orumiyeh-Sero highway in the northwest of the country which facilitates cross-border road transit through Turkey.

According to MRUD news, construction of this highway in West Azarbaijan province as part of the country's west road network plays an important role in developing economic transactions and freight and passenger transit between Iran and Turkey.  

This transit route which has cost 15,000 billion IRR is the road gateway to Europe and the shortest route to Turkey for Iran.

The 51 km long highway is expected to be inaugurated soon.

Infrastructural investments in Sero border terminal have also been considered for increased economic transactions.  

The rail link between Iran and Turkey is via Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) freight train along the Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul (ITI) Corridor which successfully resumed its operation in December 2021. During ECO's 11th  Ministerial Meeting on Transport hosted virtually by Turkey in February 2022, the activation of the ITI Corridor was acknowledged and the participants emphasized the removal of the impediments to the regularization of this Corridor.

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