Turkmenistan has started construction of the 544km Ashgabat-Turkmenbashi highway under a public-private partnership contract.
The deal is expected to cost between US$800-900 million for every 2km or so of road construction from Ashgabat in central Turkmenistan to Turkmenbashi, a city of around 90,000 on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea.
For a YouTube video graphic representation of the highway, <%$Linker:2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal click here View Youtube Video false https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWZpUawA3p8 false false %>. To see 3260 World Highways report onTurkmenistan’s highways projects in 2011, <%$Linker:2 Internal <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 2 2426 0 oLinkExternal click here Visit highway developments to boost east west transport Page false /sections/key-projects/features/highway-developments-to-boost-east-west-transport/ false false %>.
Türkmenbaşi is Turkmenistan's only port and sea link to the West. A ferry service connects Türkmenbaşi to Baku, Azerbaijan.
The government also has plans to make Turkmenbashi a centre for tourism and announced in 2007 plans to spend $1 billion and seek additional foreign investment to create a major tourist resort on the Caspian Sea.
The deal is expected to cost between US$800-900 million for every 2km or so of road construction from Ashgabat in central Turkmenistan to Turkmenbashi, a city of around 90,000 on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea.
For a YouTube video graphic representation of the highway, <%$Linker:
Türkmenbaşi is Turkmenistan's only port and sea link to the West. A ferry service connects Türkmenbaşi to Baku, Azerbaijan.
The government also has plans to make Turkmenbashi a centre for tourism and announced in 2007 plans to spend $1 billion and seek additional foreign investment to create a major tourist resort on the Caspian Sea.
