05.24.19.
A new sea port was built and commissioned in the Caspian city of Turkmenbashi (formerly Krasnovodsk).
The international forum “The Great Silk Road - to New Frontier Development” timed to coincide with the opening of the port complex, which was attended by government delegations from the Caspian and Asian countries, international transport, financial, humanitarian organizations, world news agencies, and print media by the invitation of Turkmenistan.
World-class seaport and its meaning
The Turkmen port complex can become the most important link in the modern system of international sea transportation. It is able to significantly reduce the distances and time on the way to large-scale freight traffic from Asia to Europe, to bring economic and commercial cooperation between the states of Asia, the Caspian region and European countries to a qualitatively new level. Including the Baltic and Scandinavian, for which the receipt and shipment of goods to various regions of the world is complicated by long distances and climatic features.
The area of the Turkmenbashi Sea Port is 152 hectares, the total length of the berths, which can simultaneously receive 17 ships, is more than two kilometers. The port is able to serve 300 thousand passengers and 75 thousand trucks per year. All technological processes are controlled by satellite systems.
Back in 2000, India, Iran and Russia signed an intergovernmental agreement on such a corridor in St. Petersburg. Later, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Oman, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Syria, and Bulgaria joined the agreement.Turkey, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan declared the intention of joining. The length of the corridor is more than 7,000 km, it stretches from the port of Mumbai (India) to St. Petersburg and further to the Baltics and Scandinavia. The key idea is to ensure the delivery of goods from the Persian Gulf region, India to Iranian ports in the Caspian Sea. Then - by ferries with the transition to the railway network of Russia, or by river-sea vessels through Russian inland waterways - to the countries of Eastern, Central and Northern Europe.
