The participants the international association Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) working group meeting have discussed and approved further plans of actions concerning the draft Containers Transportation Organisation Technique (single and grouped) using feeder vessels by the route from Turkey / Europe countries to Kazakhstan / Central Asia countries / China.
As reported by TITR Association Press Office, the working group met in Istanbul on 21-22 October 2020.
The participants have also consented on introducing changes in the agreement in force on organisation of container transportations in direct railway-water connection with feeder vessels involved between the ports Aktau and Baku.
As reported by Press Office of the Kazakh railway operator National Company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy JSC, the participants have also approved the tariff conditions for transportation of cleaned coal, nut coke, sulphur, liquefied gas, grains, oilseeds, beans and other cargoes.
Besides, the International Trans-Caspian Transport Consortium membership has been reinforced by a new participant – LLC ADY Express, an Azerbaijani railcar operator.
The session considered as well the TITR Association’s activities outcome for January – September 2020, according to which the box throughput on the route amounted to some 15,000 TEU. The transit cargo in containers has been noted to grow by 52%, including growth at the strategic route China – Europe by 33%.
TITR is a transport corridor connecting China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, Romania, and European countries employing ferry links through ports of the Black and Caspian Seas.
In April 2016 International Trans-Caspian Transport Consortium was established to serve as a single operator of the route.
In September 2019 the state enterprise Ukrainian sea ports authority (USPA) signed a memorandum aimed at enlarging cargo flows in the TITR framework. It was planned that the first phase of that work would concern the cargo flows analysis, as well as examination of possibilities to increase import, export, and transit via sea ports of Ukraine. Moreover, the parties intended to coordinate their efforts to launch a regular feeder service between the ports of Georgia and Ukraine.
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