Kyrgyzstan’s EAEU membership has created favourable environment for expanding economic ties and improving the investment climate in the republic. The EAEU countries, particularly Russia and Belarus are among Kyrgyzstan’s priority foreign economic partners.
Belarusian Railway has unexpectedly become the beneficiary of difficulties in logistics caused to the sanctions. This is evidenced by statistics on the volume of container shipments.
Railroads play a crucial role in the Eurasian ITCs. Because of the speed and reliability of deliveries it provides, railway transportation is starting to compete with shipment by sea (advantage of speed) and air (advantage of cost). The competition with alternative routes has to be taken into account, whereas the strategy should be built around the available advantages of the existing routes and the complementary nature of others.
