Although NELTI's first phase is formally finished, the road transport companies participating in the project continue their freight haulage operations. The road transport operators have indicated that they are interested in NELTI Phase Two that is scheduled to start in summer 2009. They are also willing to carry out the monitoring of the traffic along the Asia-Europe routes. Brief information on the situation on the NELTI Project routes is presented below.
Southern Route
Two road-trains of the Kyrgyz MGATP #7 Company are at present in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) stranded there for already quite many days waiting for Turkmen visas. The protracted procedures of visa issue for Kyrgyz carriers are one of the forms of discrimination depending on the country of origin of the freight and vehicle.
Road-trains of the Oshmezhtrans Company (also Kyrgyzstan) are in a similar situation in Tashkent, delayed awaiting Turkmen visas. These vehicles have to deliver freights of dried fruit from Jalalabad (Kyrgyzstan) to Izmir (Turkey). Another two vehicles of the company have arrived in Osh from Turkey.
Two road-trains of the Bunyod Company brought a freight of textile and took on medicines in Bulgaria, and have started on a journey eastward.
Central Route
The Bunyod Company's vehicles arrived in Tashkent carrying a freight of technological equipment from Poti (Georgia).
Northern Route
The Bunyod Company's road-train arrived in Tashkent with a composite freight aboard.
One of the road-trains of the AtrimLogisitc Company is in Brest (Belorussia) on its way to Berlin to get loaded there. Another road-train left Moscow for Tashkent. A third is on its way from Berlin to Tashkent carrying a freight of medicines (now on the road between Smolensk and Moscow). And a fourth road-train, also with medicines aboard, is following from Berlin to Almaty (Kazakhstan) (now in the vicinity of Nizhniy Novgorod).
Two road-trains of the Azatika Company are on the way from Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) to Germany (at present, crossing the territory of Poland). And one more vehicle is traveling from the West in the direction of Bishkek (at the moment, crossing Kazakhstan).
The Janstrong Company's two road-trains have unloaded in Shimkent (Kazakhstan) (metal ware from Germany) and are taking on a freight of raw cotton in bags.
Statistics on routes
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