ArmInfo. A meeting of the foreign ministers of Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Romania, related to the Caspian Sea - Black Sea transport corridor project will be held on March 4 in Bucharest. For the first time, foreign ministers from 4 countries will meet in a similar format. Earlier, in October last year, a meeting on the Caspian Sea - Black Sea international transport corridor (ITC) of experts from 4 countries was held in Ashgabat.
According to media reports, Turkmenistan and Romania became the initiators of the creation of a new transport route. Both countries have the latest multimodal harbours, which by and large are idle. "Romania should use all opportunities to turn its Black Sea port of Constanta into one of the important links in the transport and transit corridor connecting the Caspian and Black Seas," Maria- Magdalena Grigore, State Secretary of the Romanian Foreign Ministry, said at the first meeting held last summer in Turkmenbashi. According to her, Constanta should become a point of transshipment to the EU of goods transported from the Turkmen port of Turkmenbashi, as well as from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in the context of ensuring the access of goods from Turkmenistan and other Central Asian countries to European markets. For Turkmenistan, this proposal is more than tempting. Ashgabat has long been exploring the possibility of transporting goods, including liquefied gas to Constanta. The supply route involves the use of special containers and runs through the Caspian Sea to Baku (Azerbaijan), then by rail to Batumi or Poti (Georgia, the Black Sea region) and from there by sea to Romania.
To recall, at the beginning of May 2018 in the Caspian Turkmenbashi opened an international multimodal seaport. The cost of the project implemented by Gap Insaat (Turkey) is more than $ 1.5 billion. With its commissioning, great opportunities have emerged for the shipment of goods arriving at Turkmenbashi along the Silk Road route from Asia and the Pacific, and then to European countries through the ports of Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran.