ON THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE TRANS-CASPIAN INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT CORRIDOR

Geopolitical turbulence in the world continues to impact freight logistics and provides growth opportunities for alternative transport corridors and infrastructure facilities. The process of changing the global logistics map has accelerated since the pandemic and subsequent Russian-Ukrainian and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. All these events, along with the crisis in the Red Sea, have led to the emergence of international logistics contradictions aimed at manipulating the trade potential of the region. Euro-Asian inland transport corridors form one of the largest channels of global goods movement logistics. The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (Middle Corridor) is considered to be one of these competitive channels. For Euro-Asian countries, the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route plays a more significant role than just a bridge between China and Europe. This transport route primarily allows us to diversify the logistics of goods distribution and update the transport infrastructure of the countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus. In the context of the destabilization of the geopolitical situation in the world, Kazakhstan, which has large reserves of energy resources and a developed transport and logistics infrastructure, has become a key country in trade relations between Europe and China. The analysis and ranking of Euro-Asian inland transport corridors supporting cargo transportation in the direction China-Europe-China is carried out. Geopolitical, economic and transportation factors determining the role of competitiveness of the Trans-Caspian international transportation route in global logistics are considered. Keywords: Kazakhstan, Global logistics, Euro-Asian corridors, TITR, Middle corridor.