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Article: Logistics and security: the Caspian ports prepare for growth.
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- The Middle East
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- January 1, 2009
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THE SEAPORTS OF the energy-rich, landlocked Caspian basin are experiencing an unprecedented burst in the growth of cargo infrastructure investment as they prepare for unhindered shipping access to the oceans and the world markets.
The following two rival development programmes rapidly approaching the implementation stage are likely to make this possible:
* A navigation canal to be cut through the Caucasian Mountains in order to link the Caspian with the Black Sea, planned by Kazakhstan and backed by its neighbours; and:
* A rival scheme floated by Russia to open the existing Volga-Don Canal to unrestricted ...