As part of the development of international transport corridors, the first container train was launched, connecting India and Kazakhstan via Turkmenistan. The project was implemented with the support of key transport and logistics operators in the region: JSC ‘UztemirYulKonteyner’, OJSC TULM (Transport and Logistics Center of Turkmenistan) and JSC ‘Kedentransservice’, as reported by Uzbekistan railways.

The train, which included 12 twenty-foot containers, departed from the Indian port of Mundra and is heading to the Sorokova station in Kazakhstan. The route runs through the territories of Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, covering a total of 5,885 kilometers: 1,585 km by sea and 4,300 km by rail.

This transport corridor has already been successfully used for container transportation from India to Uzbekistan along the Mundra-Sergeli route, but now it has been expanded to Kazakhstan for the first time. The organizers plan to carry out regular shipments of container trains along the India-Central Asia multimodal corridor.