BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 24. The Middle Corridor is becoming a bridge linking the countries of East and West, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said, Trend reports.
He spoke at the summit of the UN Special Program for the Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) in Baku.
"The Middle Corridor is positioning itself as a reliable supply channel in the region. Together with Azerbaijan and our other colleagues, we are working to eliminate the bottlenecks in the corridor," he said.
Georgia, he claims, is aggressively building its transportation infrastructure, with the government investing in the construction of highways and trains. Highways and a new airport are now being built in Tbilisi.
The Middle Corridor connects China's and European Union countries' container rail freight transportation networks via Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, and Eastern Europe.
The multilateral multimodal transport infrastructure connects Caspian and Black Sea ferry terminals with railway systems in China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Poland.
The Middle Corridor allows for increased cargo flow from China to Turkey, as well as to European countries and the other way around.
One of the key advantages of this transport corridor is that a route train via this corridor delivers freight from China to Europe in an average of 20-25 days.