A 240km section of the Kungrad-Beineu highway in Uzbekistan has been reopened after reconstruction.
The road runs through Uzbekistan’s northwestern region of Karakalpakstan to the border with Kazakhstan. It is part of a strategic highway corridor connecting Uzbekistan with European countries.
Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said that the distance of international transportation through Uzbekistan will now be reduced to 1,000 kilometers, and transportation costs will be lowered by 25 percent. “This road will become part of the logistics network reliably connecting our country with European markets through the Caspian and Black Sea ports. On this section of the international corridor “A-380” that passes through Uzbekistan, the daily traffic flow will increase threefold,” Mirziyoyev noted.
In recent years, double-landlocked Uzbekistan has been striving to become a key transit hub in trade turnover between the EU and Turkey and Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan.
