Kazakhstan will carry out a job to dig’s background of the Caspian Sea around its main port, whose Sapable threatens the transcaspian transport corridor between Europe and Asia, a colossal project without going through Russia and supported by Europeans.
The Transcaspio Corridor, also called the Middle Corridor, is an alternative commercial route to the north through Russia, for which almost all goods between China and Europe transit. The war in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Moscow led Europeans to develop the transcaspian form, which also has the advantage of reducing the transport time from China to Europe to Central Asia, Caspio, Caucaso and Turkey.
This spring, the European Union had announced to invest ten billion euros to mainly develop this commercial route and open central Asia. Subject to investments, the volume of annual load (oil, cereals, containers) must triple by 2030 and reach 11 million tons, according to the World Bank, but the saphable of the Caspian endangers this path.
Closed sea
At the beginning of May, the management of the port of Aktaou had warned about the consequences of the safable in maritime transport, cargo and tankers that cannot be charged with all its capacity.
“If we do not do the dredging work for the end of the year and the sea level continues to decrease, navigation will remain ineffective,” said Kazhefe Kazinform’s official news agency, an port official, Erbollat Tlepiev.
The Caspian is a closed sea, also considered the largest lake in the world with its 371,000 square kilometers, an area greater than that of Germany. She limits with five countries (Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan). At the beginning of January, Kazakh scientists had reported an “acceleration of falling in the Caspian Sea level”, a trend that in addition to the economic consequences threatens fauna and flora.
Source: BFM TV
