The Middle Corridor — the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route — is the South Caucasus’s most important economic story: an east–west artery moving cargo from China to Europe while bypassing Russia. This hub tracks Caucasus Business Journal’s coverage and the essentials.
The Middle Corridor — formally the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) — is a multimodal trade route linking China and Central Asia to Europe via Kazakhstan, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Türkiye, bypassing Russia.
TITR is the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route — the formal name for the Middle Corridor.
It runs from China across Kazakhstan, over the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan, through Georgia, and on to Türkiye and the EU.
It is the main east–west route across Eurasia that touches neither Russian territory nor the Hormuz/Red Sea chokepoints — making it central to global supply-chain diversification.
Physical capacity at the water’s edge: too few vessels on a shrinking Caspian, and Georgia’s stalled Anaklia deep-sea port.