KTAI Corridor Registers First TIR Operation

The first successful TIR pilot operation involved land freight transportation from Shahid Rajaee Port in the southern Hormozgan Province to Kyrgyzstan via Afghanistan and Tajikistan—the so-called KTAI (Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Iran) corridor.
TIR stands for “Transports Internationaux Routiers" or "International Road Transports". The 1975 convention replaced the TIR Convention of 1959, which itself replaced the 1949 TIR Agreement between a number of European countries. 
“The KTAI corridor offers an alternative, short route between Iran’s southern ports and e Central Asian countries,” Mostafa Ayati was also quoted as saying by IRNA on Sunday.