2024-05-19 18:48:24
Kazakhstan and Latvia signed a Memorandum on the event of the Trans-Caspian Worldwide Transport Route (TMTM or Center Hall).
As Day.Az reviews on Saturday close to the Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan, the doc was signed throughout a gathering between Transport Minister Marat Karabaev and his Latvian counterpart Kaspars Brishkens.
In the course of the assembly, Karabaev famous that the 2 international locations are actively creating transit and transport cooperation.
“One of many important elements of cooperation is the completely functioning joint working group on transport. This group covers a variety of points within the discipline of railway, highway, air transport, transit and logistics,” he stated.
In response to the minister, in the present day the Trans-Caspian Worldwide Transport Route has acquired a particular function as a substitute for different routes. That is evidenced by a twofold improve in cargo transportation volumes on the finish of 2023.
“With a view to improve the potential of TMTM, in addition to remove bottlenecks on the route, work is being carried out to enhance infrastructure and terminal capacities, develop port capacities, improve rolling inventory, take away administrative boundaries and create favorable circumstances for carriers, which is able to permit rising throughput by 2025 TMTM capability is as much as 10 million tons per 12 months,” Karabaev added.
Allow us to observe that in the present day Latvia, along with Austria, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and Hungary, have expressed curiosity in becoming a member of the TITM.
Allow us to recall that the Center Hall connects the container rail freight networks of China and the international locations of the European Union by means of the international locations of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey and Japanese Europe.
A multilateral multimodal transport infrastructure hyperlinks ferry terminals of the Caspian and Black Seas with the railway techniques of China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine and Poland.
The center hall contributes to a rise in cargo site visitors from China to Turkey, in addition to to European international locations and in the other way.
A block practice working alongside this hall delivers items from China to Europe in a mean of 20-25 days, and this is likely one of the essential benefits of this transport hall.
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