{"id":17909,"date":"2026-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/liliana-krutonog-the-middle-corridor-and-the-persian-gulf-europe-potential\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T00:00:00","slug":"liliana-krutonog-the-middle-corridor-and-the-persian-gulf-europe-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/liliana-krutonog-the-middle-corridor-and-the-persian-gulf-europe-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Liliana Krutonog: The Middle Corridor and the \u201cPersian Gulf \u2013 Europe\u201d potential."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Liliana Krutonog, CEO of MALBI-trans<strong>, announced a project to launch a new multimodal route from the Persian Gulf countries to Europe <\/strong>at the BLACK SEA TRANSPORT CORRIDORS 2026: PORTS, RAILWAYS, SHIPPING conference. The route is intended to become a reliable alternative to the Suez Canal amid ongoing instability.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker presented a <strong>Gulf\u2013Europe delivery concept<\/strong> in which, <strong>at the initial stage, cargo will be transported by trucks,<\/strong> with a long-term transition to <strong>rail infrastructure<\/strong> that Saudi Arabia and Qatar plan to actively develop by 2030. Transit time by road from Abu Dhabi to Turkey already stands at just 12\u201315 days, <strong>which is faster than sea freight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Krutonog highlighted the <strong>significant potential of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan<\/strong>, which could add up to 400,000 tons of cargo per year to the Middle Corridor. She also mentioned the Lapis Lazuli Corridor through Afghanistan \u2013 a country that, after years of war, is beginning to attract interest from logistics companies as a future growth point.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe Middle Corridor can absorb flows from the Gulf. This is not just an alternative to Suez, but a gateway to new emerging markets in Central Asia, where the population of Uzbekistan alone is growing by one million people per year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For more interviews and news from the world of logistics, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/transportcorridors.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TransportCorridors.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also take part in international logistics events organized by <strong>\u0413\u0440\u0443\u043f\u043f\u0430 RDL<\/strong> \u2013 visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rdl.group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>website <\/strong><\/a>for more details.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liliana Krutonog, CEO of MALBI-trans, announced a project to launch a new multimodal route from the Persian Gulf countries to Europe at the BLACK SEA TRANSPORT CORRIDORS 2026: PORTS, RAILWAYS, SHIPPING conference. The route is intended to become a reliable alternative to the Suez Canal amid ongoing instability.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caucasus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}