UzTemiRContainer, part of Uzbekistan Temir Yulary, held talks with a number of Asian logistics operators on the development of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan multimodal corridor on the sidelines of the Investment and Trade Fair in Lanzhou, China.
The meeting was held in a quadrilateral format with the participation of Gansu International Logistics Group, the Afghan diplomatic mission in China, and Xinjiang Union of International Railway Logistics.
The key topics were the launch of return container shipments from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan to China, increasing the route’s capacity, and developing logistics infrastructure in Central Asia, including the construction of terminals in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
On the sidelines of the forum, a separate bilateral meeting between representatives of Uztemiryulcontainer and Gansu International Logistics Group took place, during which the parties visited the facilities of the international dry port in Lanzhou.
They inspected container and bulk terminals, car handling areas, and a refrigeration complex for working with refrigerated containers. The delegation from Uzbekistan also familiarized itself with Gansu’s digital solutions in the field of logistics management.
Following the talks, the companies announced the launch of a pilot container route between China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan/Turkmenistan. The first train is scheduled to depart in the third quarter of 2025.
The parties confirmed their intentions to expand cooperation in the field of multimodal transport and expressed their readiness to increase the volume of container transport in the Eurasian direction by at least 1.5 times by 2030.
