Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan have reached a preliminary agreement to establish a new transit corridor linking Uzbekistan to Pakistan’s Arabian Sea ports of Karachi and Gwadar via Afghanistan.
The initiative is part of the Uzbek president’s directive to strengthen the country’s transport and logistics network.
According to Uzbekistan’s Deputy Minister of Transport, Jasurbek Churyev, surveying and feasibility studies for the project are already underway. He noted that the route could offer regional countries a fresh gateway to global markets.
Churyev added that the existing trade route through Iran’s Bandar Abbas no longer appears mainly or reliable due to regional instability, making the Afghanistan route increasingly strategic.
The proposed corridor begins at Termez, passes through Mazar-i-Sharif and Kabul, and connects to Peshawar in Pakistan before reaching the southern ports of Karachi and Gwadar.
Churyev emphasized that the new corridor would create significant opportunities for trade, transit, and economic cooperation among the three countries.
