The Caspian Basin

The report titled “The Great Transshipment Scam,” published by the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in August 2026, outlines a new phase in U.S. global trade policy. Its central ar...

On a map, the project looks almost provocatively simple. Around 300km of pipeline laid across the Caspian seabed would connect Turkmenistan’s gas fields to Azerbaijan’s infrastructure. The gas could t...

The truck queue at the Red Bridge shows that electronic permits save time only when paired with sufficient physical capacity and risk-based controls. On August 18, 1,030 trucks were waiting to leave A...

Can Azerbaijan expand trade with Russia while complying with western restrictions? On a map, the International North–South Transport Corridor appears to be an almost straight line connecting Russian p...

The Caspian Sea Day, conceived as an environmental observance, unfolded in 2026 against a backdrop of attacks on ports and ships. Iran urged its neighbors to condemn the strikes, but the five coastal...

The level of the Caspian Sea is falling faster than ports, coastal cities, oil and gas infrastructure and environmental protection systems can adapt. Over the past five years, the sea has lost about o...

The Caspian Sea, long regarded as an area relatively insulated from major international conflicts, is rapidly becoming a zone where military, energy and transport interests intersect. Russia retains a...

At first glance, the Middle Corridor is experiencing a boom. The geopolitical transformation of recent years has turned the Middle Corridor from an alternative route into a critically important artery...

In recent years, the Caspian Sea has acquired new geoeconomic importance within Eurasia’s transport system. Its transformation into one of the principal transport areas at the intersection of East–Wes...

The rapid decline in the Caspian Sea’s water level is forcing Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Iran to deepen port approach channels, restrict vessel loads and reconsider port developm...

Kazakhstan’s Kuryk port has completed the modernisation of two lifting transition bridges at its railway ferry complex, cutting the handling time for railway ferries from 18 to 12 hours and for vehicl...

BAKU, July 26 — The Caspian Sea, long regarded as a body of water insulated from global conflicts, is gradually becoming an extension of two theatres of war at once: Russia’s war against Ukraine and t...

The Caspian Sea has entered a period of accelerated shallowing, the consequences of which are already affecting ports, oil terminals, fisheries, and coastal ecosystems. If the current trend continues,...

In the July heat, Ashgabat looked much as it always does: broad, nearly deserted avenues, gleaming white-marble government buildings, and meticulously choreographed state ceremonies. At first glance,...

In the twenty-first century, the reshaping of global trade routes has transformed transport corridors from purely economic projects into geopolitical instruments. Against the backdrop of the Russia–Uk...

On the surface, it looked like a routine sequence of diplomatic engagements: President Ilham Aliyev’s visit to Tbilisi on April 6, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s return visit to Baku on May 18, Ko...