Article 13. Types of railway communications and transportation

Railway communications and transportation are subdivided into the following types:

internal communications — transportation of passengers, baggage, freight-baggage, cargo, postal, and courier shipments within the Republic of Uzbekistan;

international communications — transportation of passengers, baggage, freight-baggage, cargo, postal, and courier shipments between the Republic of Uzbekistan and other states;

direct mixed communications — mixed transportation of passengers, baggage, freight-baggage, cargo, postal, and courier shipments by different types of transport under a single transportation document issued for the entire route. Direct mixed communications may be both internal and international;

transit transportation — transportation ensuring the movement of passengers, baggage, freight-baggage, cargo, postal, and courier shipments through the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan by railway transport, if such movement is only part of a route where the points of departure and destination are outside the Republic of Uzbekistan, as well as transportation carried out by the railway transport of the Republic of Uzbekistan through the territory of foreign states;

special transportation — transportation ensuring the transport of special types of cargo to satisfy particularly important state needs, including defense needs.