Middle Corridor (Trans-Caspian International Transport Route)

The headquarters of the Association of Carriers "Middle Corridor" at the end of 2022 is located in Astana.

As of July 2022

2023: Meetings of the heads of Turkey, Georgia, USA, Uzbekistan, Turmenistan, the European Council on the issue of the corridor bypassing Russia

In mid-September 2023, President Turkey Recep Erdogan USA met with Prime Minister Georgia Irakli Garibashvili on the sidelines of the summit, where he discussed, including the project for the implementation of the "Middle Corridor."

The American media actively covered the meeting of the heads of Central Asian countries with US President Joe Biden in September in the framework of the C5 + 1 format in New York. The Wall Street Journal noted that the White House's interest in the region is due to the need to create alternative logistics routes bypassing Russia, noting the role of the Middle Corridor.

Also on the sidelines of the UN summit, the presidents of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedow met with the representative of the European Council Charles Michel (who switched attention from Transcaucasia to Central Asia). As in the case of Biden, Charles Michel paid special attention to the importance of developing effective transport corridors, also mentioning the Trans-Caspian multimodal corridor as a priority area of ​ ​ cooperation.

Kazakh President Kassym Zhomart-Tokayev summed up the importance of this project, announcing the country's readiness to become a regional hub for the supply of food and other products through the implementation of the "Middle Corridor."

2022: Strengthening Turkic cooperation within the Middle Corridor

The importance of the project, launched back in 2017, increased sharply in 2022 after the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine.

For European companies that previously worked with Russia, it became necessary to find bypass routes to continue cargo transportation bypassing the territory of the Russian Federation. The optimal option was the Middle Corridor.

Europeans are forced to adapt to new realities in order to ensure the uninterrupted supply of goods from China. If until 2022 everyone is more than satisfied with the use of the Trans-Siberian Railway, then in the new conditions trade with the European Union is seriously complicated.

Danish Maersk and Finnish Nurminen Logistics switched to the Kazakh railway network leading to China in the spring.

On June 27, 2022, meetings of foreign ministers and, and were held in Baku transport Turkey Azerbaijan. Kazakhstan

The parties stressed the importance of investing in the infrastructure of the route. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said it was ready to invest billions of euros in the development of freight routes between Europe and Asia, bypassing Russia.