LAHORE: Pakistan Railways has started booking consignments for its international container train to be inaugurated on august 14 which would run from Islamabad to Turkey via Tehran. The train being run under Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO), will consist of 20 containers with the capacity around 750 tons. Chief Marketing Manager Freight Pakistan Railways Imtiaz Hussain Rizvi talking to a local news agency here Tuesday said, “We have contacts with the traders and hopefully freight for the train would be secured by August 10.” However, he said, in case cargo is not obtained as per full capacity of the container train till August 10, booking would continue upto August 14. He said, “We hope that traders from Lahore, Faisalabad and Islamabad would prefer to send their consignments by train as it would take 15 days to reach Turkey against Ship which takes about a month.” Regarding tariff, he said, for the first train which is demonstrative one Pakistan Railways has accepted the same tariff which is being charged in Turkey and Iran. “However, after running the first train, we would review it,” he said. LINK