INFRASTRUCTURE CONDITIONS FOR LOGISTICS ACTIVITIES IN UZBEKISTAN: CAPACITY, CONNECTIVITY, AND INTERNATIONAL CORRIDOR INTEGRATION

Abstract

Uzbekistan’s logistics performance is increasingly shaped by the interaction of “hard” infrastructure (roads, railways, airports, terminals) and “soft” infrastructure (customs, trade facilitation, border management, and corridor governance). As a doubly landlocked economy, the country’s competitiveness depends not only on domestic connectivity but also on reliable access to external gateways through regional corridors. Using a corridor-and-nodes framework, this article assesses current infrastructure conditions for logistics activity in Uzbekistan and links them to international requirements for time, predictability, intermodality, and compliance. Evidence from global benchmarking (World Bank LPI), CAREC corridor diagnostics, OECD trade facilitation analysis, and recent national policy measures suggests that Uzbekistan has expanded its logistics-node network (including internationally recognized dry ports) while still facing bottlenecks in containerization, cross-border interoperability, and corridor coordination.