Turkmenistan starts construction of Ashgabat-Turkmenbashi road

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, click here. To see World Highways report onTurkmenistan’s highways projects in 2011, click here. Türkmenb
May 8, 2015 Read time: 1 min
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.

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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.
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