Tajikistan

The Republic of Tajikistan is a mountainous country situated on the South-Eastern part of Central Asia, bordering Kyrgyzstan to the North, Uzbekistan to the West, Afghanistan  to the South and the People’s Republic of China to the East.

As a landlocked a country, Tajikistan does not possess any maritime façade and relies on international road and rail routes to access the World market. Tajikistan is also located in the heart of major transport corridors between CIS countries, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.

Tajikistan has also been an active member of TRACECA since the Brussels Conference in May 1993 which gave birth to the TRACECA program.

A National transport sector master plan to 2025 was adopted on April, 1st 2011.

First document of the kind in Tajikistan, it aims at inserting the transport sector into the National Development Strategy up to 2015. There are no specific road maps for each mode. To establish the long-term vision for transport development, the document takes into account two Central Asia regional transport development strategies:

·        CAREC transport corridors described in the Transport and Trade facilitation Strategy 2010-2018 of the CAREC Program

·       UNESCAP projects: Trans Asian Railway and Asian Highway Network.

As far as LOGMOS is concerned, goals of National Transport Master Plan 2025 are:

·        To develop the infrastructure of each mode

·        To strengthen Tajikistan as a transit country between Central Asia, and the Indian Sub-Continent.

·       To provide adequate conditions to enable free competition between actors for international and national transport services.

To respond to the existing challenges for MOS and ILC promotion, the LOGMOS team supported a pre-screening for potential pilot projects. The pre-screening was based on the multi criteria analysis of proposed projects. Feasibility study was elaborated for the selected pilot project for Tajikistan.

The LOGMOS team carried out a comprehensive country analysis covering the national transport policy, strategic challenges, legal environment and investments in the transport and logistics sector. Findings of this study were reflected in a Country Profile based on the following structure:

Introduction

National Transport Policy

Legal Environment in the field of Transport

National Policy and Legislation in Trade and Transit

Investments in Transport and Logistics Sector

Strategic Challenges

Pilot Projects Selected for MoS I and ILC Projects

Full text of the Country Profile and the Project Fact Sheet are available under the above links.