The evolving rail grid in Central Asia will financially incentivize Middle Corridor trade while making EU-Asian routes less regionally competitive. Russian Railways in collaboration with the railways of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran is granting reduced container-kilometer rates in the year 2023 for using the infrastructure of the eastern route of the North-South international transport corridor that links Russia with countries in the Caspian basin, the Persian Gulf and Central, South and Southeast Asia

Uzbekistan-Afghanistan -Pakistan Joint Rail Project

Courtesy RailFreight.com