Outlook for Turkmenistan as Eurasia’s Transport Hub

... of goods from Europe to Central Asia and the Caucasus. The project of multimodal Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TMTM) was put forward to deliver cargoes from China to Europe via Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea and South Caucasus, bypassing Russia.... ... their economic projects and interests. They thus considered connections from Europe to the Trans-Siberian Railway, as well as to Iran via the Caspian Sea. In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a major transportation initiative known as “Belt and ...