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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.

India to build its largest port for €8.5 bln

Vadhavan, India (Ports Europe) June 22, 2024 – The construction of a new INR 762 billion (8.5 billion euro) deep-water port at Vadhavan on the western...

The delayed Rasht-Caspian Railway is operational

Rasht, Iran (Ports Europe) June 22, 2024 – The long-delayed Iran’s Rasht-Caspian Railway, connecting the city of Rasht to the country’s Caspian Sea port...

Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan keep talking North-South corridor

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 20, 2024 – Russia is pressing ahead with the creation of a key sanctions-busting route linking it with Asia –...

U.S. ambassador to Georgia comments on Anaklia port project

Tbilisi, Georgia (Ports Europe) June 19, 2024 – The U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, has published the text of an interview given by Robin L. Dunnigan,...

Belarus multimodal Arctic terminal near Murmansk in 2028

Tuloma, Russia (Ports Europe) June 18, 2024 – The new multimodal terminal project for transshipment of Belarusian goods in Russia’s port of Lavna in Tuloma...

Joint Russia-Iran agency activities in Iran’s ports

Astrakhan, Russia (Ports Europe) June 15, 2024 – Iran’s state-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) wants to organise joint agency...

Russia’s bombastic forecasts for Northern Sea Route

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) June 13, 2024 – Moscow, struggling to justify its fixation on the Arctic Northern Sea Route (NSR), is throwing out more...

Russia fixated on the Arctic Northern Sea Route

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 11, 2024 – There has been a flurry of announcements about Russia’s Arctic Northern Sea Route (NSR), indicating the...

Iran wants to use INSTC to move coal from Russia to India

Mumbai, India (Ports Europe) June 11, 2024 – Iran has announced plans to transport coal from Russia to India via Iran’s railway network, said the...

Russia’s strategic Korsakov port to be privatised

Korsakov, Russia (Ports Europe) June 10, 2024 – Russia’s Far East Sea of Okhotsk Korsakov port (Sakhalin region) will be privatized by the founder of the...

DP World wants Russia’s Arctic Northern Sea Route

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) June 10, 2024 – DP World needs Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR), which is changing the rules of the game in...

Arkhangelsk port as China’s cargo transport hub

St. Petersburg, Russia (Ports Europe) June 9, 2024 – Hard pressed by sanctions and isolated from the West, Russia is handing over its logistics “crown...

Integration of Ukrainian ports into the EU transport network

Stockholm, Sweden (Ports Europe) June 4, 2024 – Ports of Stockholm, together with the law firm Interlegal, headquartered in Odessa (Odesa), and the...

Caspian Middle Corridor Conference – London, June 11, 2024

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) June 3, 2024 – The Caspian Policy Centre (CPC) is organising the event “Caspian Middle Corridor...

To build or not to build: Russian ports overseas

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) June 2, 2024 – The Russian government does not plan to support country’s private or state-owned companies investments in...

How To Maximize The Middle Corridor – Caspian Policy Center

Washington, USA (Ports Europe) May 31, 2024 – Earlier this month, the Caspian Policy Center hosted “The 8th Annual Trans-Caspian Forum: How to Maximize...

Turkey supports Via Carpatia, a Three Sea initiative

Ankara, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 27, 2024 – Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir UraloÄŸlu has come out in support of the Via Carpatia...

First truck transit the route China-Kazakhstan-Azerbaijan-Georgia

Kuryk, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) May 26, 2024 – In the first trial for the transit road transport of goods along the route...

Russia plans a new Arctic deep-water port

Belomorsk, Russia (Ports Europe) May 24, 2024 – Forced by Western sanctions, transport connection issues with its Black and Caspian seas ports and...

Bad news for jammed railway links to Russian ports

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) May 23, 2024 – A breakthrough in traffic volumes towards Russia’s Far East and in the southern direction (Black Sea)...

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