ASTANA: President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has stressed the need to expand cooperation in transport sector among the countries of Central Asia.
In his article “The Renaissance of Central Asia: On the path towards sustainable development and prosperity,” published in local media he said the Central Asian region stands a chance to become one of the key transportation, logistics and transit hubs across the globe.
He noted that Central Asia is rapidly turning into a linchpin of global transport communications. The president said it is an ambitious China’s One Belt, One Road project, and the North-South international transport corridor that more or less involves all the states of the region.
“Today our countries promote other promising projects to open new transport corridors, the article reads,” he noted.
The President said Kazakhstan and its partners actively develop the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (Middle Corridor). Tokayev added the cargo transportation along the Middle Corridor may increase fivefold in the mid-term.
“The development of Kazakhstan’s sea infrastructure, the ports of Kuryk and Aktau, open new opportunities. The volume of cargo transportation along the ports from China, Central Asia to South Caucasus, Turkiye and further to Europe is growing,” he said in the article.
He noted access to the promising markets of South Asian countries and pots of the Indian Ocean may provide transportation corridors across Afghanistan.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev prioritized improvement of transport service, expansion of transit capacities and efficient use of the regional transit and logistics potential in Central Asian nations transit and transport sector cooperation.
