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TASHKENT (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $198 million loan to help upgrade and widen 77 kilometers of the existing Karshi-Shakhrisabz-Kitab highway in Kashkadarya province, southeast of Uzbekistan, to improve tourism, mobility, as well as domestic and international trade, ADB’s Country Office said. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and road safety organisation Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (EASST) are teaming up with other partners for a road safety project in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe where a major international motorway will soon come into operation, the Bank said. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — A 1,000th container train proceeded on December 1 through Altynkol station and the dry port of Khorgos–Eastern Gate SEZ on the Kazakh-Chinese border, on route from China to Europe, the press office of Kazakh national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) said. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic on December 1 signed the financing agreement amounting to $95.1 million to rehabilitate a section of the North-South Alternate Road Corridor in Kyrgyzstan, ADB’s Country Office said. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The opening ceremony of the Atamurat-Ymamnazar (Turkmenistan) - Akina (Afghanistan) railroad section, the first link of the Asian transnational transport corridor, took place on November 28 on the Turkmen-Afghan border with the participation of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The first-ever United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference concluded on November 27 in Turkmenistan’s capital, with more than 50 countries endorsing the 'Ashgabat Statement on Commitments and Policy Recommendations,' with a view to supporting cleaner, greener transportation – from local transit systems to worldwide multimodal networks, the UN News Centre reports. Continue reading
