BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 18. The Middle Corridor can contribute to improving trade relations, the Deputy Director of NPC Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH, Nunu Cesar Nunes, told Trend on the sidelines of the international conference “Black and Caspian Freight Forum 2024: corridors, cargos, infrastructure” held in Baku.
According to him, their company is not directly involved in the development of the Middle Corridor but actively participates in its work.
“We provide consultancy to other companies and also run our own logistics company involved in the transportation of goods between Europe and other regions. The Middle Corridor represents an important alternative for global supply chains that have been disrupted in recent years. This route opens up new opportunities for the transportation of goods from East to West and can also help improve trade ties and develop the economies of countries along the corridor. It is not only about supplying cheap goods from China to Europe. The most important goal of the Middle Corridor is to modernize the economies of the countries it passes through and create conditions for their sustainable growth,” he said.
To note, the Middle Corridor links the container rail freight transportation networks of China and European Union countries via Central Asia, the Caucasus, Türkiye, and Eastern Europe.
Multilateral multimodal transportation infrastructure connects ferry terminals of the Caspian and Black Seas with railway systems of China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Türkiye, Ukraine, and Poland.
The Middle Corridor facilitates increased cargo traffic from China to Türkiye, as well as to European countries and in the opposite direction.
The route train along this corridor delivers cargo from China to Europe in an average of 20–25 days, and this is one of the main advantages of this transport corridor.