OREANDA-NEWS. January 27, 2012. Some 50,000 tonnes of cargo were transported through intermodal logistic center “Navoi” in 2011, the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov said at the session of the Cabinet of Ministers.

The Government of Uzbekistan in cooperation with Korean Air created International intermodal logistic center at Navoi Airport.

The center is used as transcontinental transport-forwarding hub, linking Eastern and Sothern Eastern Asia with Europe, Middle East and the CIS.

Freight terminal has been commissioned at Navoi international airport on 12 August 2010. The terminal, as important transportation and shipping unit in logistic chain with developed infrastructure, can cover all range of transportation services in cargo receiving, storage and shipment with use of various transports.

Terminal at Navoi intermodal logistic center can process 300 tonenes of freight per day or 100,000 tonnes a year. South Korea’s Kyung Sang Machinery Co., Ltd, which also equipped Incheon Airport, provided equipment.