The two countries granted access to land along the entire Rasht-Astara route in the INSTC corridor for engineering surveys

Russia and Iran have signed agreements that will allow engineering surveys for a planned railway link on the key trade corridor connecting Russia and India to go ahead, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Nikitin said on Thursday.

The Russian company Caspian Services and Iran’s Construction and Development of Transportation Infrastructures Company (CDTIC) signed a land-access protocol in Tehran, along with a supplementary agreement to an existing contract, TASS reported.…