The EAEU needs to create alternative transport routes and integrate the railway project through Afghanistan to Pakistan, Kazakh Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov said at a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, Report informs via Kazakh media.
The Kazakh prime minister noted that the EAEU countries are “permeated with trunk transport arteries.”
In this regard, he emphasized that the importance of the North-South international transport corridor is increasing every year and the capabilities of the Trans-Caspian international transport route are expanding.
“It is necessary to study the issue of creating alternative routes in which all states in the region would be interested. In this regard, we would like to draw attention to the Turgundi-Herat railway project, which is capable of providing up to 10 million tons of cargo transportation in the direction of the Pakistani port of Karachi, as well as other major projects in Afghanistan. We propose to work out the issue of organically integrating this very promising transport route into the existing system of Eurasian routes,” Bektenov said.
