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Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are launching a pilot project to utilize the China-Tajikistan-Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan-Iran-Turkey-Europe multimodal transport corridor, according to the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Tajikistan.
As part of the pilot project, a convoy of ten fully loaded trucks will travel from Uzbekistan through Tajikistan to China.
The transport ministers of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Azim Ibrokhim and Ilkhom Makhkamov, reached an agreement on this issue during recent talks. Dushanbe and Tashkent may jointly begin shipping cargo to China along the new multimodal corridor. Cargo transportation permits will be issued electronically.
It is noted that this corridor was presented in 2022 in Dushanbe as part of the International Conference "Logistics and its Priorities in the Development of Transport Relations between Tajikistan and Countries of the Region."
There are also plans to increase the throughput capacity of the Jartepa-Sarazm border crossing, located in the Urgut district of the Samarkand region on the border between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. A new logistics center will be established there, capable of handling up to 100 trucks per day with immediate document registration.
In addition, construction is planned near the border for a diagnostic center that will provide medical services to 150-200 applicants daily, as well as a shopping mall for 800 entrepreneurs. Tajik citizens will be able to access commercial and medical services without passport control, additional paperwork, or waiting in line.
The Commission also considered the possibility of increasing the number of permit forms for international road transport and issuing them electronically.
