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  07.06.2021
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Important visit from Metro Istanbul to Baku for new collaborations

Ozgur Soy, General Manager of Metro Istanbul, one of the affiliates of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM), met with Zaur Huseyinov, President of Baku Metro, and Vusal Aslanov, Vice President of Azerbaijan Railways, in Baku. Important cooperation decisions were taken to benefit from the management experience of Metro Istanbul for the rail system projects to be carried out in Baku.

Turkey's largest urban rail system operator, Metro Istanbul, has recently carried its domestic cooperation visits abroad as well. Ozgur Soy, General Manager of Metro Istanbul, met with Zaur Huseyinov, President of Baku Metro, and Vusal Aslanov, Vice President of Azerbaijan Railways (ADY QSC), in two separate meetings in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and held important meetings.

“We want to bring our 33 years of experience to Baku”

At the meeting where technical inspection visits were made to the metro stations in Baku, the Metro Academy and the Depot Workshop Area, it was decided to sign a cooperation agreement on training and technology sharing between Baku Metro and Metro Istanbul.

Noting that the talks were fruitful for both sides, General Manager Ozgur Soy said, “The people of Azerbaijan are our brothers. We would like to carry the quality service we provide to 16 million Istanbul residents to Baku with our technology, experience and knowledge on rail systems. The officials we met in Baku also stated that they want to benefit from our management experience. We made a study tour with the President of Baku Metro and his deputies. There is a great need to renew the aging signal system on existing lines in Baku. We follow and use technology trends all over the world. In addition, we create our own technology together with our R&D team. In this sense, we will conduct feasibility studies on the establishment of the signalling system we developed in Baku”.

“We will conduct a feasibility study on operation”

General Manager Soy, who also met with the Vice President of Azerbaijan Railways Vusal Aslanov in Baku, said, “We had a very productive meeting. They asked us to do a feasibility study on the operation of passenger lines. We are still negotiating on cooperation in ongoing and planned works, especially in electromechanical projects.”

General Manager Ozgur Soy informed that the Baku delegation would come to Turkey and visit Metro Istanbul in the coming months. 

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