Digitalisation along key Eurasian corridors on pandemic recovery agenda
A high level virtual workshop gathered the transport ministries, customs administrations, and national TIR and road transport associations of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia International Transport Corridor (TRACECA) as well as IRU experts. Participants discussed the latest developments in the digitalisation of commercial transport documents, and how these can mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on the sector.
New studies show how to optimise trade flows with TIR
IRU and the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) have published two studies on the potential of trade corridors linking Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Iran (KTAI) and Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul (ITI).
TIR: from Iran to Uzbekistan, through Afghanistan for the first time
Following several successful pilot operations in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf, a new TIR corridor has been activated from Iran to Uzbekistan, using the route via Afghanistan for the first time.