Uztemiryulcontainer, part of Uzbekistan Temir Yollari, held talks with a number of Asian logistics operators on the development of China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan multimodal corridor at the Investment and Trade Fair in China’s Lanzhou.
The meeting was held in a quadrilateral format with the participation of Gansu International Logistics Group, the Afghan diplomatic mission in China and Xinjiang Union of International Railway Logistics.
The key topics were the launch of return container shipments from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan to China, increasing the capacity of the route, as well as the development of logistics infrastructure in Central Asia, in particular the construction of terminals in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
A separate bilateral meeting between representatives of Uztemiryulcontainer and Gansu International Logistics Group was also held on the margins of the forum, during which the parties visited the facilities of Lanzhou International Land Port.
They inspected container and bulk terminals, passenger car handling areas, as well as a refrigeration complex for handling refrigerated containers. The delegation from Uzbekistan also familiarised themselves with Gansu’s digital solutions in logistics management.
Following the negotiations, the companies announced the launch of a pilot container route on the directions China – Kyrgyzstan – Uzbekistan – Tajikistan/Turkmenistan. The first train is planned to be dispatched in the third quarter of 2025.
The parties confirmed their intentions to expand cooperation in the field of multimodal transportations and expressed readiness to increase the volume of container transportations in the Eurasian direction at least 1.5 times by 2030.