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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbek media report that Uzbekistan has completed the construction of the Angren-Pap electrified railway line that connects three provinces located in the Uzbek part of the Fergana Valley (Andijan, Namangan, and Fergana oblasts) to Uzbekistan’s mainland, bypassing neighboring Tajikistan. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — A delegation of Kazakhstan’s national railway company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), headed by the company’s President Askar Mamin, on February 21 and 22 visited Iran to discuss joint construction of a cargo terminal in Iran’s port of Bandar Abbas and a dry port at the Incheburun rail station on the border between Turkmenistan and Iran, the press service of KTZ said. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is continuing to promote modern infrastructure and regional connectivity in Central Asia by supporting a key road link in Kazakhstan. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The first regular container train running from China through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Iran on February 10 entered Iran through Turkmenistan’s Serahs rail station, the State Information Agency of Turkmenistan reported. Continue reading
TEHRAN (TCA) — A delegation of 260 Kazakh traders and industrialists headed by the country’s Investment and Development Minister Asset Issekeshev is currently visiting Iran to forge new business relations between the two nations, Iran’s PressTV news agency reported on February 8. Continue reading
LONDON (TCA) — Amidst the wildest speculations that predominantly Shiite Iran might emerge as a powerful buffer to keep Sunnite extremism at bay for Central Asia and take the shape of a regional power broker, realities speak a different language. For the moment, Iran needs everybody else’s help a lot more than anybody else needs Iran’s. But where politics face a long haul, trade might have a unique and immediate opportunity – especially where the landlocked Central Asian former Soviet republics are concerned. Continue reading
