Termez hosted a multilateral international meeting on the development of the multimodal transport corridor “Belarus – Russia – Kazakhstan – Uzbekistan – Afghanistan – Pakistan” with the participation of heads of transport departments and representatives of forwarding companies and businesses.

The event was attended by the Minister of Transport of the Republic of Uzbekistan Ilkhom Mahkamov, the First Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications of Belarus Valeri Verenich, the Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Dmitry Zverev, the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation of Afghanistan Hamidullah Akhundzada – offline, the Deputy Minister of Railways of Pakistan Ali Shah Syed Mazhar and the Deputy Minister of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan Maksat Kaliakparov – online.

At the meeting, it was noted that developing this corridor would yield good results in increasing the volume of international cargo transportation along land corridors and expanding the role of the CIS countries, Central and South Asia, in the Eurasian global transport and logistics system. It was emphasized that this would create a solid basis for developing cooperation between different transport companies, optimizing transport corridors, and improving logistics processes.

Experts estimate that more than a million tons of cargo passed through the Trans-Afghan corridor last year. The meeting organized in Termez is also intended to transform the international multimodal transport corridor into an essential strategic corridor connecting the CIS countries with the Indian Ocean countries through South Asia.

“To further develop the multimodal corridor, we organized a meeting of representatives of the public and private sectors of the countries that pass through this corridor, that is, participants in the cargo collection project”, says Bekhzod Kholmatov, Director of the Center for Studying Problems of Transport and Logistics Development at the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan. “The Trans-Afghan corridor is becoming reliable and convenient’.

Transport industry leaders who participated in the meeting provided detailed information about the work done over the past period.

B2B and G2B meetings were organized, and entrepreneurs’ problems and shortcomings when implementing regional freight transportation were discussed.

The guests got acquainted with the amenities created at the Termez International Trade Center and the available capabilities for receiving, storing, and sending goods at the Termez Cargo Center.

The Special Presidential Representative for Afghanistan, Ismatullo Ergashev, attended the event.

Following the meeting, a roadmap was signed. It provides for specific, targeted work to develop freight transportation.

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Kholmumin Mamatraimov, UzA