• “New Silk Way” is the G-Global mega-project
• Europe and Asia will benefit from efficient transport and logistics connections
• The project focuses on the construction of the transport infrastructure, terminals and logistics centres
The initiative of the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev of developing the G-Global info-communication platform is considered to have strategic importance for the unification of initiatives within a single mega-project. G-Global is a platform which creates conditions dedicated to the international community for open interactive discussions on the global economic situation. This project is focused on discussions and the elaboration of mechanisms to overcome the global financial crisis and aimed at extending participants to identify anti-crisis solutions. Therefore, the transport system plays a vital role in ensuring a continuous trade flow which needs to develop internationally.
G-Global is established as central resource for the online dialogue between governments, authorities, experts and interested public. The initiative relies on 5 principles: evolution and the rejection of revolutionary political changes, equity and consensus, global transparency, constructive multi-polarity.
As part of this global project, the revival of the New Silk Way is a practical instrument for the integrity of several countries from Europe and Asia, where Kazakhstan is interested not only in developing the transport and logistics infrastructure, but also in important segments for creating new opportunities in the countries of the two continents regarding the efficiency of trade through the “New Silk Way”.
In fact, the “New Silk Way” is the project which creates a complex business environment, an international transit hub and a transport and logistics “bridge” between Europe and Asia.
“Kazakhstan should revive its role of important hub for transit in the Central Asia region, the so-called connection bridge between Europe and Asia. This means the establishment of a single system of the international hubs on the key transport corridors of Kazakhstan. The outcome of the mega-project by 2020 is to intensify traffic volumes via Kazakhstan by doubling them and by an additional increase of at least 50 million tonnes”, declared the Kazakh President during the 25th meeting of the Council of Foreign Investors.
Also, during an official visit in Kazakhstan (September 2013), the Chinese President Xi Jinping requested the involved parties to eliminate the barriers hindering trade and investments. Moreover, “China and Kazakhstan should create an economical corridor of the New Silk Way”, said Xi Jinping. On the occasion, the Kazakh President said that “groups are working on reviving the new Silk Road and the main transport corridor on the Western Europe-Western China axis is to be launched, as Kazakhstan implements construction projects of road and railway infrastructure, as well as terminals and logistics centres”.
In order to develop these projects, in 2013 Kazakhstan central authorities adopted “the action plan for the implementation of the New Silk Way”.
Kazlogistics has identified methods for bringing together all transport modes in order to develop the transport and logistics system in Kazakhstan. Consequently, there are instruments of interaction between [ by Pamela Luică ]executive and legislative institutions, as well as organizations and companies.
Thus, the parties have agreed on constructive cooperation to implement and promote joint actions, including the strategic project G-Global: “New Silk Way”.
In the spring of 2014, the 8th edition of Astana Economic Forum will dedicate special sessions to setting measures for the integration of trans-Kazakhstan corridors within the global transport system.
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