The Ministry of Rail Transport of Turkmenistan is increasing freight traffic on the North-South international corridor and expanding transit and international routes. This was reported by TerraNews.

Work is underway to improve the quality of rail services and create competitive tariff conditions for carriers.

Container transport is actively used on the North-South, Lapis Lazuli and East-West corridors. In January–November 2025, 19,000 container shipments were completed, including 9,250 transits, 5,650 export and 4,100 import shipments. This is 9,405 containers more than in the same period in 2024.

Following the negotiations on international multimodal routes Russia–Kazakhstan–Turkmenistan–Iran, Turkmenistan–Azerbaijan–Georgia–Turkey–Europe, as well as routes through Uzbekistan, 63 container trains were transported during the reporting period.