RIAC, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International Studies at Fudan University Report #87 / 2023
RIAC, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International Studies at Fudan University Report ...
... Russia – Caspian Sea – Iran – India – Sri Lanka. The agreement provided for the approximate transit time of containerized freights and approximate rates, distributing the responsibilities between the parties, and outlining the organization of transportation. Russia ratified it in 2002. The main goal of the project was reducing the time of cargo transportation between Russia and India, as well as developing an alternative route to the Suez Canal in Egypt, which would be shorter and more convenient. The main ...
... diversification of transport flows was recognized as a necessary step to strengthen the political sovereignty of the new states through economic projects, reducing their dependence on Russia.
In the meantime, Western nations were simultaneously developing transportation routes via Russia, taking into account the well-established infrastructure and the intention to draw the country into the orbit of their economic projects and interests. They thus considered connections from Europe to the Trans-Siberian Railway, as well as to Iran ...
... on key areas for cooperation. The report provides an analysis of bilateral economic ties between the two countries, strategic challenges in the Middle East, regional issues related to the Black Sea and the Caucasus and the development of a Eurasian transport corridor.
Deepening Russia-Turkey Relations
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... Baku, as a transit point between Iran and Russia. Trial Run was conducted in August 2016 running through both Iran and Azerbaijan. It was identified that goods could be shipped to the southern Iranian port of Bandar Abbas and from here goods could be transported to Russia through Azerbaijan using trains and trucks, avoiding the need to be shipped across the Caspian Sea as planned initially.
Baku is being developed as a transport hub. The Azerbaijani and Iranian rail networks are in the final stages of being linked ...