The first meeting of the working group on the development of the multimodal transport corridor Belarus–Russia–Kazakhstan–Uzbekistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan took place in Termez, Uzbekistan on 23 April. Attended by each of the countries’ ministers of transport, the meeting focused on connections between Central Asian states and the CIS through Uzbekistan with South Asia.
According to the Uzbek Transport Ministry, the resulting roadmap, signed by all parties, aims to increase transit cargo transportation through Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan through the introduction of digital documents to speed up and simplify processing.
In recent years, the volume of transit cargo through Afghanistan has increased by over 30%, reaching almost 1 million tons. Following a transit trade agreement between Uzbekistan and Pakistan in 2021, cargo volumes have increased significantly and in 2022, cargo transportation between the two countries through Afghanistan increased 2.5-fold. This year, Uzbekistan plans to transport more than 1 million tons of cargo through Afghanistan to Pakistan.
