As part of this project, the first three trucks with a combined weight of 80 tons left the city of Urumqi and will follow the China-Kazakhstan-Azerbaijan-Georgia route, the Kazakhstani Ministry of Transport said.

The Chinese heavy trucks arrived at the Kazakh port of Kuryk and have already loaded onto a ferry for transportation across the Caspian Sea.

“Uzbek Railways” announced rates for transportation of raw vegetables and fruits in refrigerated sections (five wagons with a load of 225 tons) on three routes:

- “Tashkent - Moscow” (3485 km) - $45098

- “Tashkent - Iletsk 1” (1777 km) - $30042.5

- Tashkent - Minsk” (4033 km) - $60647.5

Uzbekistan's national air carrier Uzbekistan Airways will launch a regular flight service between the Uzbek city of Nukus and the former capital of Kazakhstan from June 1, 2024.

The flights will be operated by Airbus A320 airliners twice a week - on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

If Tashkent signs a contract with the Russian state corporation Rosatom to build a nuclear power plant in Uzbekistan, they will use Hungarian dry cooling technology. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó writes in social networks.

“This will be a contract worth more than $100 million. We have already started training future Uzbek nuclear power specialists,” said a senior Hungarian official.

Earlier LogiStan wrote that Rosatom and Uzatom are preparing a contract for the construction of a nuclear power plant in the Jizzak region of Uzbekistan.

Saudi Vision Invest has expressed its desire to reconstruct Andijan International Airport and get it under its management. This was announced by the head of the company Omar al-Midani at a meeting with Uzbek Transport Minister Ilkhom Mahkamov.

Following the talks, the parties signed a preliminary agreement that Vision Invest will conduct research and prepare project proposals within six months.

After that, a decision will be made on the possible continuation of cooperation on this project.

Earlier it was reported that Kazakhstan is ready to transfer 22 airports under the management of European companies.