ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, June 23. The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has unveiled a vision to metamorphose the Trans-Caspian transport route—often referred to as the Middle Corridor—into a shining beacon of seamless and harmonious trade across the globe, Trend reports.
Speaking at the International Transport Forum at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) headquarters in Paris, IRU President Radu Dinescu emphasized that road transport remains essential to global supply chains and that the Middle Corridor has the potential to become a “model corridor.”
According to insights from IRU, there has been a substantial
uptick in freight throughput from China to Europe utilizing the
Middle Corridor, with a remarkable surge exceeding 80 percent in
2024 relative to the preceding year, and projections indicate a
trajectory of sustained expansion.
To fully leverage the capabilities of this corridor, the IRU is
engaging in strategic collaborations with governmental entities,
emphasizing three pivotal tenets: streamlining regulatory
frameworks and minimizing bureaucratic encumbrances, propelling
digital transformation to bolster transparency and operational
efficacy, and synchronizing transnational transport protocols via
the endorsement of UN transport conventions.
Dinescu articulated that upon the comprehensive deployment of the
model, it possesses the potential for scalability across additional
strategic geographies, encompassing the Middle East and the
Bio-Ocean Corridor of South America.
