EghtesadOnline: The project to electrify a railroad connecting the Iranian city of Garmsar in Semnan Province with Inche Borun near the border with Turkmenistan will double the maximum speed on the link, while its capacity will grow fourfold to 10 million tons per year, the head of Russian Railways said.

EghtesadOnline: A Russian bank has agreed to provide 1 billion euros to electrify a 500 km railway route in northern Iran, state news agency IRNA has quoted a senior official as saying.

EghtesadOnline: Russia has announced readiness to electrify a main railway that connects the Iranian capital Tehran to the northwestern city of Tabriz.

EghtesadOnline: China signed a contract with Iran to finance the electrification of a 926-km railroad from Tehran to the eastern city of Mashhad in Khorasan Razavi Province with a $1.5 billion loan.