Sample - International Transport and Transit Corridor of the Ashgabat Agreement
The Subject «International Transport and Transit Corridor of the Ashgabat Agreement» belongs to the following Online Programs taught by EENI Global Business School:
The main objective of the Ashgabat Agreement is to create an international corridor to facilitate the transport of products by the shortest trade route between the Central Asian republics and the
seaports of the Persian Gulf and Oman.
The Ashgabat Agreement contemplates the trade barriers reduction and the simplification of procedures for the movement of products between the member
countries.
The International Transport and Transit Corridor of the Ashgabat Agreement
connects with the New Silk Road
Entry into force of the Ashgabat Agreement: April 2016
Initial member countries (2011): Iran, Oman, Qatar, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
2013: Qatar
withdrew from the Ashgabat Agreement
2015: entry of Kazakhstan
2016: entry of Pakistan
2018: entry of India
Note: Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan are not part of the Ashgabat Agreement
Logistics infrastructures related to the Ashgabat Agreement.
The first part of the International Transport and Transit Corridor of the Ashgabat Agreement passes through the railway lines of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Iran. The second part passes through the routes that
connect the Bender Abbas port and the Chahbahar port (Iran)
with the port of the Sultanate of Oman.
Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan Railway Line (TAT)
Afghanistan-Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey transport
corridor
Iran-Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan railway
Chabahar Port
Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA)
International North-South Transport Corridor
Trans-Caspian Railway
Highway between India, Russia, Iran, Europe and Central Asia
Asian regional economic communities related to the International Transport and Transit Corridor of the Ashgabat Agreement
Central Asia Cooperation (CAREC): Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia,
Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Iran is an observer country
Commonwealth of Independent States: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Organization for Cooperation between Railways (OSJD):
Azerbaijan, Albania, Afghanistan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary,
Vietnam, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, North Korea, South Korea, Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia,
Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
Ukraine, Czech Republic and Estonia
Asian Clearing Union:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Myanmar, Maldives,
Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Trade Agreements of Iran: Algeria, Armenia,
Syria, Venezuela, Pakistan
India
Indian Trade Agreements: Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, ASEAN, South Korea, the EU, New Zealand, Africa-India, Mauritius, Canada, Australia, GCC, SACU, EFTA, MERCOSUR, Andean Community
Kazakhstan
Customs Union with
Russia and Belarus
Trade Agreements with Armenia, Ukraine and Georgia
Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with the European Union
Turkmenistan
Trade Agreements with Armenia, Georgia and with the Eurasian Economic Union
Uzbekistan
Trade Agreements with Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Georgia and with the Eurasian Economic Union