Transport Corridor
The creation and operations of international rail, road and sea routes, co-ordinated to transport cargo long distances, usually international and designed to benefit all participating countries. For example, the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), also known as the Middle Corridor; and the European Union’s Ten-T network.
An area where one or more modes of transport operate and share a common course and specifics of freight transportation. Transport corridors can generate wider economic benefits and costs through their effects on a potentially diverse set of development outcomes.
This topic is key for ports in Southern Europe, the Caspian Sea and Central Asia – developing trade between Europe and Asia.
Another transport corridor project to link Central Asia to Indian Ocean
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) August 2, 2023 – Landlocked Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Iran are to open a new transport corridor, again bypassing...
Moscow keeps promising the development of industrial zones in Egypt
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – Infrastructure for the Russian Industrial Zone (RIZ) in Egypt will begin to be built by the end of 2023, Vasily...
Africa, the last resort for Russia’s grain and fertiliser exports
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – Western sanctions-hit Russia desperately tries to find new markets for its agricultural production (grain) and...
Uzbekistan looks for a railway line via Afghanistan to the Arabian Sea
Termez, Uzbekistan (Ports Europe) July 31, 2023 – A trans-Afghanistan railway project would connect landlocked Uzbekistan to the Arabian Sea and the...
FESCO visits Astrakhan shipbuilding plant
Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) July 28, 2023 – A delegation of the FESCO Transport Group, headed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors Andrey...
Belarus says Russian ports now used for transshipment
Minsk, Belarus (PortSEurope) July 25, 2023 – A total of 19 Russian ports have been handling cargo from Belarus for transshipment to ultimate...
FESCO proposes new container terminal in Astrakhan, Caspian Sea
Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) July 25, 2023 – Andrey Severilov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the FESCO Transport Group, has met with the...
KSK, NUTEP terminals increase cargo handling in first half
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) July 21, 2023 – KSK and NUTEP terminals, both DeloPorts subsidiaries) reported improved cargo handling numbers in the...
Georgia hosts Uzbek delegation
Tbilisi, Georgia (PortSEurope) July 19, 2023 – The Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has welcomed a visit of Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla...
Kazakhstan’s ports cargo in H1 23: Aktau – 2.3 mln, Kuryk 1 mln tonnes
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) July 18, 2023 – Over 2.3 million tonnes of cargo were transshipped through Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea port of Aktau in the...
Azerbaijan’s ports handled 6.3 million tonnes of cargo in H1’23
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) July 18, 2023 – Azerbaijan’s Caspian Sea ports increased the transshipment of goods in the first half of the year by 9.6% to...
Update: First Iranian ship in 10 years docks Libya’s Misrata
Misrata, Libya (PortSEurope) July 17, 2023 – For the first time in 10 years, an Iranian ship docked at Libya’s Mediterranean Sea port of Misrata, the...
Update: Russia’s Caspian ports with 38% growth in H1 23 and problems
Astrakhan, Russia (PortSEurope) July 17, 2023 – In the first half of 2023, cargo turnover of Russia’s Caspian Sea ports, on the International...
Solyanka Caspian terminal, controlled by Iran, helps Iran-Russia trade
Solyanka, Russia (PortSEurope) July 17, 2023 – Iranian company Nasim Bahr Kish owns a controlling 53.1% stake in Solyanka terminal of Russia’s Caspian...
Middle Corridor, bypassing Russia, transports 1.8 times more cargo in H1 23
Astana, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) July 14, 2023 – More than 1.3 million tonnes of cargo were transported via the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route...
Russian ports handled 453.3 million tonnes of cargo in H1’23
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) July 14, 2023 – Cargo turnover of Russian seaports in the first six months of 2023 increased by 10.5% compared to the first half...
Russia approves Turkmenistan joining INSTC
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) July 13, 2023 – Russia has approved Turkmenistan joining the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC). A Russian...
DP World and ADUI to build logistics infrastructure in Uzbekistan
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (PortSEurope) July 11, 2023 – DP World, a global port operator and logistics company, and Abu Dhabi Uzbek Investment Company (ADUI)...
Aktau grain terminal stake to be sold
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) July 9, 2023 – A stake in the grain terminal in Kazakhstan’s Caspian Sea ports port of Aktau, the Aktau Marine Northern...
Valencia Port tests technologies for detection of threats, terrorist attacks
València, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2023 – Physical, cyber or combined threat detection tools; tools for predicting possible consequences and...