
|

|
June 3, 2022
|
|
- The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route is
establishing itself as the main land corridor for transport
China-Europe
-
- A doubling of traffic is expected this year
containerized
-
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is impressing a remarkable
impulse to the development of the so-called Middle Corridor, the corridor
International Trans-Caspian Intermodal (TITR) connecting the
Southeast Asia and China with Europe crossing Kazakhstan,
the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia and, from there, Turkey or the
Black Sea. However, this is a development that has been underway since
time, given that last year through the Trans-Caspian
International Transport Route has passed through a traffic
containerized equal to 25,200 teu, with a significant increase in
+20% on 2020, while in 2022 traffic is expected
total of 3.2 million tonnes, six times
the one transited in 2021, and a containerized traffic equal to
50,000 teu.-
- May the war still give impetus to this corridor of
traffic is evidenced by the significant increase in activity
of the Caspian ports of Aktau and Kuryk, in the Kazakh region of
Mangystau, where last Tuesday the group
Kazakh Railway Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) organized a
meeting with the press dedicated to infrastructure projects for the
development of the corridor. If in February in the port of Aktau traffic
of the containers had been equal to 1,657 teu, in the following April the
volume has doubled rising to 3,099 teu.
-
- Particularly important for the western part of the
corridor crossing Turkey was completion
of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway line that has become
operational on 30 October 2017
(
of 31
October 2017). A line on which, he said in recent days
the Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Adil
Karaismailoglu, the goal is to move 1,500 trains there
block per year and reduce travel time between China
to Turkey from 12 to 10 days. Referring to developments
determined by the Russia-Ukraine war, the minister highlighted
that the Central Corridor has become an alternative
important in terms of distance and time from the Corridor
North, crossing Russia: "a departing freight train
from China to Europe - karaismailoglu underlined - if
follows the Central Corridor and Turkey covers 7 thousand kilometers in
12 days. If the same train prefers the commercial route
northern Russian, the distance to travel is 10 thousand
kilometers and the travel time is at least 15 days.
If the same cargo chooses the Southern Corridor and the ship, it can
travel 20 thousand kilometers through the Suez Canal and
reach Europe in 45-60 days. Also these figures - it has
detected the minister - reveal how advantageous and safe the
Central Corridor in world trade between Asia and Europe'.
|
|
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
phone: +39.010.2462122, fax: +39.010.2516768, e-mail
|