Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are simplifying the mutual transit passage of trucks through their territories to third countries. The new agreement will allow their drivers not to obtain a special permit for this.
The Turkish President approved a document on simplifying customs procedures with Azerbaijan and Georgia along the railway route.
Though it is not yet cold and roads are dry, heavy truck traffic jams have begun to form on the Russian-Georgian border in North Ossetia
In the near future, the railways of Georgia and Armenia intend to carry out constant work on increasing cargo turnover. The Georgian Railways press service reported that it was planned to increase rail freight …
Today, at the 51st kilometre of the Volga-Caspian sea shipping channel, the ship Volgo-Balt 239 en route to Iran ran aground, the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation for the Astrakhan region …
Russia defines the Northern Sea Route as a shipping lane from the Kara Sea to the Pacific Ocean, specifically running along the Russian Arctic coast from Kara Gates strait between the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea, along Siberia, to the Bering Strait. According to Eurasian Times, Moscow seems to be slowly and steadily playing its geopolitical game in the Arctic, by emphasizing the importance of the accessibility to Arctic ports and further developing the shipping lanes of the Northern Sea Route (NSR), connecting the Pacific and Atlantic.With the active support of China in this game, Russia is now wooing Japan and South Korea, with the obvious aim of weakening the US plans in the construct of the Indo-Pacific
The first cargo-carrying operation via the North-South Transport Corridor in transit through Iran was a success, Russia’s Deputy Transport Minister Alexei Tsydenov said. The deputy minister led the Russian …
The Coordinating Council for Transit of Cargo that operates in Azerbaijan has reported significantly increases in transit traffic from neighboring Turkey. In January-February 2016 more than 1,500 Turkish trucks used the Azerbaijan's …
Russia has closed passage through its territory to all trucks registered in Ukraine. The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation explained that the move was a reprisal for the actions of the Ukrainian side, as ‘from February 11th, …
