As Spot reported, Shavkat Mirziyoyev is holding a meeting on the socio-economic development of Andijan region.
The president outlined several major projects aimed at expanding the region’s transport and logistics potential. In particular, the launch of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway will increase cargo transportation tenfold to 15 million tonnes per year.
Construction of a 300-hectare logistics complex in Qo‘rg‘ontepa and Khanabad is expected to begin by the end of the year to serve the future railway. The project is estimated to cost $600 million.
Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have agreed to build a new border crossing, “Keskanyor”, the president said. Its capacity will be twice that of the largest existing crossing, “Do‘stlik” (“Dostuk” on the Kyrgyz side).
Once the crossing opens, cargo transportation is expected to increase 2−3 times, while transit times will be reduced by an average of one week. The project for the border crossing is to be developed and construction launched within three months.
Practical work on the construction of the Tashkent-Andijan toll road will begin in 2027, Mirziyoyev said. The design of a new 78-km road between Andijan and Khanabad will also begin.
The president also noted the launch of a high-speed train between Tashkent and Andijan earlier in September. As a result, travel time between the two cities has been cut from six to four hours.
This week, Jamshid Tursunov, head of the Road Committee under the Ministry of Transport, said that tender procedures for the Tashkent-Andijan highway are expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2027. He also said that instructions had been given to accelerate the implementation of the Tashkent-Charvak toll road and the Namangan-Pungan highway.
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