Representatives of the Ministry of Transport, O'zbekiston temir yo'llari, the Center for the Study of Problems of Transport and Logistics Development, and the Directorate of International Transport Corridors of Russia's Ministry of Transport held a working meeting, Dunyo reports.
According to Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Transport, the talks were held under the decisions taken amid the 23rd meeting of the Uzbek-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation.
Reportedly, meeting discussed ways to design new logistics transport corridors passing through Russia and Uzbekistan to increase the volume of international freight transport, including transit, as well as issues of diversification of foreign trade routes for the transport of goods.
The sides exchanged views on the potential of an alternative multimodal transport and transit corridor ‘Russia - Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan - Afghanistan – Pakistan’ linking Russia with South-East and South Asia.
The participants agreed to continue discussions this year on the development of new transport and transit corridors and identified further ways to intensify and expand bilateral cooperation.
A Memorandum of Cooperation was concluded between the ‘Directorate of International Transport Corridors’ and the Centre for the Study of Transport and Logistics Development under the Ministry of Transport of Uzbekistan, the article reads.
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