BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 8. As planned, circa 20 million tons of oil will be transported through the Middle Corridor (Trans-Caspian International Transport Route or TITR) per year, Nurzhan Marabayev, General Director of Kazakhstan’s SEMURG INVEST company, said, Trend reports.
According to Marabayev, strategic tasks related to the diversification of oil export routes will also be picked.
“The TITR, as the shortest and most reliable route for transportation from Central and Eastern Asia to Europe, is gaining increasing importance in the current geopolitical situation. Nearly 80 percent of all continental shipments between China and Europe pass through Kazakhstan,” he said, adding that “the construction of the oil-loading terminal at the Port of Kuryk, with an annual transshipment capacity of up to 5.5 million tons, will make a significant contribution to the development of the TITR”.
Only the first phase of the project implementation will allow for covering up to 25 percent of the plnned volume of diversification of the oil export flow through the Middle Corridor, the company’s head noted.
Marabayev also noted that the oil-loading terminal in the future may handle chemical bulk cargoes, including green ammonia, opening up opportunities for the transshipment of bulk cargoes for the oil and gas chemical industry and “green” projects.
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