Uzbekistan has launched construction of a new 282-kilometre Tashkent–Samarkand highway, a six-lane infrastructure project valued at approximately $2.2 billion.
Scheduled for completion by 2030, the highway is expected to:
- Reduce travel time from five hours to around 2.5 hours
- Lower freight transport costs by 19–24%
- Strengthen logistics, trade and regional connectivity
- Create new opportunities for industry, warehousing and services
Why a road is a market story
A 19–24% reduction in freight transport costs is not a marginal improvement. It changes what is economically viable to move, and therefore what is economically viable to produce, store and sell along the route.
Halving travel time between Uzbekistan's two largest economic centres also changes how businesses organise themselves. Same-day movement between Tashkent and Samarkand makes distribution models, service coverage and supply chain structures possible that a five-hour drive does not support.
Land and positions along a corridor are cheapest before the corridor exists.
For companies considering warehousing, distribution or production siting in Uzbekistan, projects like this are worth factoring into decisions now rather than in 2030.
$2.2 BILLION TO MOVE UZBEKISTAN FASTER.
Source: Official Website of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.