The North-South Corridor - showing progress

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1 The North-South Corridor - showing progress Euro-Asian Transport Links Expert Group meeting Tashkent, Uzbekistan November Stig Nerdal, Senior Adviser, UIC

2 The initial founders of The International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) were India, Russia and Iran (2000). Later on several other countries have joined the corridor project UNESCAP presented a study (2001) where the North-South Corridor was shown as an integrated part of the overall TAR -network. The main routes were defined as follows: 1: The Caucasus Route (west) 2: The Central Asian Route (east) 3: The Caspian Sea Route (through) UIC made a study in October 2008 (a specific route west of the Caspian Sea) UN (ESCAP+ECE) included the route in their EATL study in Several organizations have worked with or showed interest in the North- South concept

Corridor Macro conditions and politics The selected route Infrastructure, technical and operational feasibility The market Competition THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF

3 UIC feasibility study Preface Executive summary Background and objectives The International transportation corridor development concept, logistical The North-South idea & status Corridor Macro conditions and politics The selected route Infrastructure, technical and operational feasibility The market Competition THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF RAILWAYS The New Caucasus Route Feasibility study Financial & commercial viability Discussions and evaluation Recommendations & progress UIC s objective was to prepare a feasibility study.highlighting some of the required conditions for future operation on a particular route along the North-South Corridor 3. October 2008

4 The selected route: criteria's The most viable route on longer term As few countries as possible (easier agreements and border crossings) The route has as few discontinues points (gauge break, trans-loadings etc) as possible The distance is as short as possible Focus on the railways, i.e. we use trains where it is possible or railway sections can be developed There are alternatives (back-up) routes/sections if the main section fails (like sea transport over the Caspian Sea and railways transport through Azerbaijan) The route is recommended by organizations like the UN and railway organizations like RZD, RAI, IR and others)

5 Murmansk MOSCOW St.P. BELARUS UKRAINE NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR THE NEW CAUCASUS ROUTE RUSSIA KAZAKHSTAN LEGENDS: 1520 m.m m.m m.m. (project) 1667 m.m. Sea connection Main corridor indication The new link Astara-Astara- Quazwin TURKEY Bandar Abbas Teheran PAKISTAN New Delhi Mumbai Transportutvikling AS

6 To Russia, Europe, Turkey etc Qazwin-Astara (335 km) Most important project Astara LEGENDS: 170 km New railway connection Existing tracks: Distance (km) 165 km St.P. Murmansk MOSCOW NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR THE NEW CAUCASUS ROUTE RUSSIA LEGENDS: 1520 m.m m.m m.m. (project) 1667 m.m. Sea connection Main corridor indication Rasht-Astara (ongoing study) 40 km Anzali Rasht BELARUS UKRAINE KAZAKHSTAN The new link Bam-Zahedan To Turkey, Armenia etc 165 km Qazwin-Rasht-Anzali (under construction) TURKEY The new link Astara-Quazwin Teheran Quazwin Bandar Abbas PAKISTAN New Delhi Source: Transportutvikling AS, 2008 To Teheran and Bandar Abbas The new link Bam-Chabahar Mumbai Transportutvikling AS, 2008

7 HELSINKI MURMANSK MOSCOW Initiate a study for an intermodal demonstration run crossing the Caspian Sea BELARUS St.P. RUSSIA Until the tracks are completed between Iran and Azerbaijan an intermodal demonstration run crossing the Caspian Sea is an alternative to show progress UKRAINE OLYA KAZAKHSTAN This route could also for demonstration purposes be extended all the way to the NW Russian port of Murmansk Important to study this alternative TURKEY NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDOR demonstration run BANDAR ABBAS Teheran BANDAR AMIR-ABAD PAKISTAN New Delhi LEGENDS: 1520 m.m m.m m.m. Sea connection MUMBAI Transportutvikling AS, 2010

8 Logistics and discontinuous points Moscow Olya Bandar AmirAbad Bandar Abbas Mumbai India Persian Gulf Iran Caspian Sea Russia

9 Thank you for your kind attention Stig Nerdal, Senior Adviser UIC 9

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