Peace Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Makes the Middle Corridor Realistic: Kocs

The EU Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kocs, has posted on her social media pages discussing the Middle Corridor and the creation of new trade routes between Europe and Asia.

Kocs revealed that the Executive Director of the European Transport Company told her at the Global Gateway Forum in October how he sends containers from China to Europe through Russia, and that he would accept an offer if a reliable alternative was proposed.

"This is what we are doing. The Middle Corridor (or the Trans-Caspian Corridor), a route of railways and seaports connecting China, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and the Black Sea with Europe, is becoming just that—a reliable alternative to trade routes that have become unreliable. Recent steps towards peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan have made this goal more realistic," the EU Commissioner stated.

According to her, trade has quadrupled since 2022 and could triple by 2030 with the right investments. "However, investments will not come without coordination with our partners and alignment with the private sector. That is why I traveled to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where we discussed with Commissioner Joseph Sikela, member states, as well as our partners from the Black Sea region and Central Asia on how to make this route faster, cheaper, and more reliable," she emphasized.