Tajikistan
Tajikistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordered by Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. It has a population of over 9 million people, with Tajik as the official language. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, with cotton, fruits, and vegetables as the major crops. Tajikistan became a member of the WTO in March 2013. However, its economy continues to face major challenges, including dependence on remittances from Tajikistani migrant labourers working in Russia and Kazakhstan, pervasive corruption, and the opiate trade and other destabilizing violence emanating from neighbouring Afghanistan.
Making the Middle Corridor an eTIR Corridor
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (PortSEurope) July 4, 2023 – Countries along the Middle Corridor, that connects Central Asia with Europe have agreed to accelerate...
The China-Central Asia Summit – a new Silk Road?
Xian, China (Ports Europe) May 22, 2023 – President Xi Jinpin has hosted his first-ever summit with the leaders of five Central Asian nations – the...
China to build infrastructure in ex-Soviet Central Asia
Xian, China (Ports Europe) May 19, 2023 – China wants to coordinate development, from building infrastructure to boosting trade, with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,...
China wants Central Asia & Russia served it on a silver platter
Xian, China (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – In the past decade, China has dreamed about having at its disposal the transport and market potential of Central...
Turkmenbashi port to be used by landlocked Tajikistan
Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) May 15, 2023 – Turkmenistan’s Caspian Sea port of Turkmenbashi will offer cargo handling facilities to landlocked...
Batumi Sea Port attends trade promotion in Uzbekistan
Batumi, Georgia (Ports Europe) May 2, 2023 – On April 28, 2023, a conference “Trade relations of Uzbekistan: the role of alternative...
The International North-South Transport Corridor saves time
Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) March 3, 2023 – The International North-South Corridor (INSTC) is the topic of a speech by Evgeny Vinokurov, Deputy...
New service highlights potential of Poti as Central Asia-Europe intermodal hub
This month saw the first call of CMA CGM’s new Caucasus Georgia Express (CGX) service. Playing a key role in this new intermodal service, APM Terminals Poti...
DP World signs digitalisation agreement with the Caspian Containers Company
Geneva, Switzerland (PortSEurope) February 22, 2023 – DP World has signed a cooperation agreement with Swiss-based Caspian Containers Company SA (CCCSA)...
New combined intermodal and multimodal terminal for Baku port
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) February 19, 2023 – By the beginning of 2024, the construction of the second phase of Azerbaijan’s Caspian Sea port of Baku...
Russia’s supply chains in the shackles of sanctions
Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) February 13, 2023 – Russia’s international road transport market in 2022 shrinked by -10% to 218 billion rubles (2.8 billion...
CMA CGM links Poti by rail with Central Asia
Marseille, France (Ports Europe) January 30, 2023 – French shipper CMA CGM has announced a service linking the Port of Poti with the Caucasus and Central...
Next sanctions-busting shipping line launched between Novorossiysk and Istanbul
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) December 16, 2022 – In another attempt to bypass western sanctions against Russia, logistics operator PEK (First...
Iran to import poultry meat from Russia
Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) December 9, 2022 – Iran has licensed five Russian poultry firms to export broiler meat to the country, reported...
Azerbaijan starts work on increasing capacity of Baku port
Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) October 30, 2022 – Azerbaijan has started work on increasing the capacity of Baku port to 25 million tonnes of cargo and...
Reference – TRACECA
TRACECA is an international programme aimed at strengthening of economic relations, trade and transport communication in the regions of the Black Sea...
Azeri section of TRACECA increases cargo traffic
Baku, Azerbaijan (Ports Europe) September 21, 2022 – Cargo transport through the Azeri section of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia International Transport...