The pilot project of the Iran-Afghanistan-Uzbekistan transit corridor has become operational under the TIR system with two trucks starting transporting goods from Iran to Afghanistan and finally to Uzbekistan.
Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have agreed to adopt joint measures that could ease movement across the borders as they seek to restore trade exchanges hampered by the new coronavirus pandemic.
Uzbekistan lifted the limitations it had set on Iranian trucks transiting through its territory since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, according to the spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration.
Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) says there have been talks with an Iranian airline to carry out the flights to Tashkent, requesting the Uzbek envoy to do more to make this happen.
Uzbekistan Ambassador to Iran Bahador Abdullahyev has held talks with Gholam Hossein Shafei, President of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) in Tehran on Sunday, 26 May.