Central Asia and the Caucasus — a network to the MMC standard.
7 corridors linking 14 cities, about 2,200 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 2,600 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 8 cross-border links and crossings. Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara, Turkmenistan to Iran, Termez to Kabul, and Baku and Tbilisi joining Russia, Iran and Türkiye.
The Network Concept
The corridors.
Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.
MMC Central Asia and the Caucasus network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.
Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.
UZ-1 Silk Road: Tashkent – Samarkand – Bukhara
UZ-2 Termez: Samarkand – Termez
TM-1 Trans-Caspian: Turkmenabat – Mary – Ashgabat
TM-2 Sarakhs: Mary – Tejen – Sarakhs
AZ-1 North–South: Baku – Astara
AZ-2 East–West: Baku – Ganja
GE-1 Baku–Tbilisi–Kars: Tbilisi – Akhalkalaki
Engagement
To initiate the programme in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
The MMC platform is available to any nation building to the standard. If your government, agency, or capital partner could initiate a project in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Make contact.
