BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr.5
Trend:
Uzbekistan and Russia are planning to create a special corridor to speed up the transportation of goods, Director General of the Russian Export Center (REC), Veronika Nikishina said, Trend reports.
“Logistics can create huge problems for moving goods when you have all the terms of the deal, everything is negotiated, but you cannot deliver your product. Or it can become an endowment for constant communication. Over 2020, the REC initially created nine corridors in a pilot mode operating on the fast track system and then put into regular service. Unfortunately, these are corridors with non-CIS countries,” Nikishina noted during the INNOPROM exhibition in Tashkent city, Uzbekistan.
According to Nikishina, thanks to the initiative of Deputy Prime of Uzbekistan Minister Sardor Umurzakov, a similar corridor is planned to be created between Russia and Uzbekistan.
“We will be holding the first negotiations on Apr.6, I am sure that this will be the beginning of a very short road to success. We want to make a mutually beneficial corridor between Russia and Uzbekistan for the consolidation of goods in both directions so that it really is an economically profitable supply of exports and imports,” she stressed.
The REC director-general added that the parties will have to agree on the creation of wholesale distribution centers at convenient points on both sides of the corridor, preferential tariffs and coordinated work of regulatory bodies - customs and veterinary and sanitary.
“These are absolutely solvable tasks, the main thing is that we have the will to solve them,” she added.