Posted on 06/02/2018 8:37:57 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Kazakhstan Grants U.S. Access to Ports for Afghan-Bound Goods
By gaining access to Aktau and Kuryk, the United States adds additional routes to circumvent Russia.
Mar 7, 2018
Lawmakers in Kazakhstan have approved an agreement allowing the United States to use two of the nation’s Caspian Sea ports as transit points for shipping nonmilitary material to Afghanistan.
By gaining access to the ports of Aktau and Kuryk, the United States will gain an additional option in circumventing Russia, which has previously also provided transit options for NATO supplies to Afghanistan.
Speaking on March 7, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kairat Adrakhmanov repeatedly stressed the nonmilitary nature of the goods to be delivered through the route, which will run from Azerbaijan, across the Caspian Sea, to eastern Kazakhstan before entering Uzbekistan, which has railway links with northern Afghanistan.
Adrakhmanov said that a transit deal has been in place between Kazakhstan and the United States since 2010. More than 700 containers of goods have been delivered over that period, generating 200 million tenge ($625,000) in revenue for local transportation companies, Adrakhmanov said.
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Good...now tell Pakistan to take a flying leap into a dung heap.
That is what that is all about, providing a route not dependent on the good graces of Pakistan.
The amount of trouble we had guarding and moving trucks from Miram Shah to Khowst was incredible.
What is the good of having access to Caspian Sea ports when we have no way to get the goods to the Caspian Sea?
I’m tired - I thought that read Kardashian....time to hang it up.
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