Uzbekistan and the Russian Federation are completing preparations to launch the Agroexpress pilot project, which provides for the swift delivery of agricultural products in a refrigerator train from Uzbekistan to Russia, said the Russian Deputy Minister of Economic Development Dmitry Volvach told.
“We, with colleagues from Uzbekistan, are now completing preparations to launch the Agroexpress pilot project, which provides for the swift delivery of agricultural products in a refrigerated train on the Tashkent to Moscow route. The project will be implemented as part of the intergovernmental Memorandum of Understanding signed in Moscow on June 22 aimed at development of Uzbekistan-Russia logistics corridors. Interested Russian organizations have already developed a draft roadmap providing for the finalization of technical conditions for collaboration between customs and control authorities, provision of tariff conditions and the allocation of specialized rolling stock,” he added.
According to him, the document is currently being finalized by the Uzbek authorities. “The project will allow us to steadily increase mutual supplies of agricultural products. In the future, it is planned to introduce container block trains delivering products “from door to door”.
