Throughput capacity of TITR may be increased to 10M tons per year

Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkiye plan to increase the capacity of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR, a.k.a. Middle Corridor) to 10 million tons per year by 2025, Report informs referring to Kazakh media.

This decision was made following the second trilateral meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Transport held in Aktau.

“Over ten months of this year, about 1.5 million tons of cargo were transported through the seaports of Aktau and Kuryk via TITR, which is twice higher than last year,” Kazakh Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development Kairbek Uskenbayev emphasized.

The parties signed the roadmap for the simultaneous elimination of bottlenecks and the development of the Middle Corridor for 2022-2027.