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The international transport corridor connecting India and Uzbekistan has been extended to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan Railways reports.
The first shipment—consisting of 12 twenty-foot containers—has already departed from Mundra Port in India, bound for Sorokovaya Station in Kazakhstan. The route spans 1,585 kilometers by sea and 4,300 kilometers by rail, passing through Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
The project is operated by UztimirYulKonteyner (Uzbekistan’s rail freight forwarding company), TULM (Turkmenistan’s transport and logistics center), and KedenTransService (Kazakhstan’s logistics terminal operator).
Previously, container shipments had successfully taken place between India and Uzbekistan via the Mundra-Sergei route. Mirziyod Mirkhamidov, chairman of UztimirYulKonteyner, noted that the company now plans to launch regular container train services along the India–Central Asia multimodal corridor.
Meanwhile, Kazakhstan Railways clarified that the shipment from India to Kazakhstan consists of ceramic tiles. Depending on congestion at Iran’s Bandar Abbas port, delivery is expected to take approximately 25 to 30 days. «This transport service is part of the development of the eastern route of the North-South corridor,» the railway operator stated. «The corridor significantly reduces delivery times and transportation costs while expanding opportunities for exporters and importers in the region."
