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The Southern Transport Corridor is a new route designed to connect Russia with the countries of Central Asia through the Caspian Sea. A memorandum on its formation and development was recently signed by participants in the first SCO transport forum in Tashkent. Not the shortest and not the most convenient, this route nevertheless received the right to life. Largely due to the fact that it excludes Kazakhstan , the current monopolist on the transit of goods from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to Russia, from the logistics chain. Details are in the Fergana article. Project participants The Southern Transport Corridor is a multimodal route that will combine two sections: land and sea. It will start in Kyrgyzstan, pass through Uzbekistan to the port of Turkmenbashi on the Caspian Sea, and then by water the cargo will be sent to Astrakhan. Christopher Devonshire-Ellis, founding partner of the consulting firm Dezan Shira & Associates Limited, wrote in August that the starting point for the Southern Transport Corridor would likely be China, not Kyrgyzstan. To do this, it will be necessary to use the currently operating China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan highway. But in winter, the movement of trucks along it is difficult. This problem should be solved by a railway line.
construction of which could begin next year Columnist for The Eurasian Times K.N. Pandita named Tajikistan as another potential participant in the project . According to him, the relevant negotiations were held at a meeting of Presidents Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Serdar Burdimuhamedov and Emomali Rahmon, held on August 4 in Ashgabat. The heads of the three states then agreed to intensify transportation along the transit corridor Tajikistan - Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan (Caspian Sea). Pandita called this particular route the “Southern Transport Corridor,” indicating that with its help Russia will be Country Email List able to circumvent the sanctions imposed on it by Western countries. Scheme of the Southern Transport Corridor: “Kyrgyzstan - Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan - Caspian Sea - Russia.” . Photo from eurasiantimes.com Canadian researcher and political scientist Robert M. Cutler argued in a similar vein on the pages of Asia Times , openly calling the Southern Transport Corridor “a secret route for the supply of dual-use goods to the Russian Federation.” Indeed, until recently, the project was almost never discussed publicly.
The first reports about him in the Russian media appeared at the beginning of this year. They presented the southern transport corridor as an alternative to existing supply routes to the Russian Federation through Kazakhstan. This coincided with Astana’s statement that it would not allow Western sanctions imposed against Moscow to be circumvented after the start of a special military operation on Ukrainian territory. Kazakh-Kyrgyz confrontation It would seem that the beneficiary of the new route is obvious, which means that the initiative to create it should come from him. But the initiator of the emergence of the Southern Transport Corridor was Kyrgyzstan, as Rossiyskaya Gazeta wrote about in February . The project was presented by the Kyrgyz Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Economy, as well as several transport companies in the country. They proposed a scheme according to which containers from Kyrgyzstan would be delivered to the seaport of Turkmenbashi on trailers, then by ferries to Russia. Thus, Kyrgyzstan wanted to solve the problem of transporting goods through Kazakhstan.
construction of which could begin next year Columnist for The Eurasian Times K.N. Pandita named Tajikistan as another potential participant in the project . According to him, the relevant negotiations were held at a meeting of Presidents Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Serdar Burdimuhamedov and Emomali Rahmon, held on August 4 in Ashgabat. The heads of the three states then agreed to intensify transportation along the transit corridor Tajikistan - Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan (Caspian Sea). Pandita called this particular route the “Southern Transport Corridor,” indicating that with its help Russia will be Country Email List able to circumvent the sanctions imposed on it by Western countries. Scheme of the Southern Transport Corridor: “Kyrgyzstan - Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan - Caspian Sea - Russia.” . Photo from eurasiantimes.com Canadian researcher and political scientist Robert M. Cutler argued in a similar vein on the pages of Asia Times , openly calling the Southern Transport Corridor “a secret route for the supply of dual-use goods to the Russian Federation.” Indeed, until recently, the project was almost never discussed publicly.
The first reports about him in the Russian media appeared at the beginning of this year. They presented the southern transport corridor as an alternative to existing supply routes to the Russian Federation through Kazakhstan. This coincided with Astana’s statement that it would not allow Western sanctions imposed against Moscow to be circumvented after the start of a special military operation on Ukrainian territory. Kazakh-Kyrgyz confrontation It would seem that the beneficiary of the new route is obvious, which means that the initiative to create it should come from him. But the initiator of the emergence of the Southern Transport Corridor was Kyrgyzstan, as Rossiyskaya Gazeta wrote about in February . The project was presented by the Kyrgyz Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Economy, as well as several transport companies in the country. They proposed a scheme according to which containers from Kyrgyzstan would be delivered to the seaport of Turkmenbashi on trailers, then by ferries to Russia. Thus, Kyrgyzstan wanted to solve the problem of transporting goods through Kazakhstan.