ASTANA, Kazakhstan, May 31. The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, or Middle Corridor) opens up huge opportunities for global trade, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said during a speech at a meeting with scientists, Trend reports.
“The country's enormous transit and logistics potential should be effectively used. Huge opportunities for world trade are opened by the Trans-Caspian international transportation route. By 2027, we plan to increase the volume of freight traffic along this corridor to 10 million tons per year,” the head of state said.
According to him, it is necessary to develop road, air, and rail transportation to strengthen Kazakhstan's position as a transit hub in Eurasia.
Meanwhile, the Middle Corridor links the container rail freight transportation networks of China and the European Union countries through Central Asia, the Caucasus, Türkiye, and Eastern Europe.
A multilateral multimodal transportation infrastructure links the ferry terminals of the Caspian and Black Seas with the railway systems of China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Türkiye, Ukraine, and Poland.
The Middle Corridor facilitates the flow of cargo from China to Türkiye, as well as to Europe and vice versa.
A 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.
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