A TALE OF TWO PORTS

[Abii]

And how exactly will you accomplish that ?













Have you checked into what kind of relationship Iran has with Turkmenistan ? Turkmenistan is in Turkish camp, not exactly a friend of Iran and are they open to let Indian goods flow through other CAR's. These CAR nations are at each others throats. I think you are letting your assumptions and imagination run wild.

You should take your own advice. You have a tendency to talk smack.

Anyway, Iran and Turkeministan don't have a brotherly realtionship, but it's close. Iran and Turkemistan have better relationship than even Iran and India and a hundred other countries:

Tehran has the largest volume of trade exchange with Turkmenistan after Russia.[1] The Tajan-Mashhad-Sarakhs railroad, the $139 million Korpeje-Kurt Kui gas pipeline in western Turkmenistan and the $167 million Dousti ('Friendship' in Persian) Dam in the south of the country were built through a joint venture. Balkanabad-Aliabad power transfer line and several other projects such as the program of fiber-optic communications development, construction of bunkers and other objects in Merve and a refinery in Turkmenbashi, construction of liquefied gas terminals, highways are instances of growing bilateral relations.[2] In 2009 about 100 industrial projects have been built or are being built in Turkmenistan with Iranian help.[3]

Annual trade turnover decreased to $1.2 billion in 2009 from $3.2 billion in 2008 mostly because of decrease in the price of oil and gas.[4][5] Turkmenistan’s exports to Iran increased by 42 percent during January–September 2007. Turkmenistan’s main exports to Iran were natural gas, oil and petrochemical products, as well as textiles. Turkmenistan sold 8 billion cubic meters of gas to Iran in 2010 from 5.8 bcm in 2005.[6] Turkmenistan normally supplies 5 percent of Iran’s gas demand.[7] Both countries inaugurated Dauletabad–Sarakhs–Khangiran pipeline in 2010 to raise natural gas supplies to Iran to 20 billion cubic meters a year.[8]

Railway

The North-South Transnational Corridor is a 677km-long railway line connecting the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan with Iran and the Persian Gulf. It will link Uzen in Kazakhstan with Gyzylgaya-Bereket-Etrek in Turkmenistan and end at Gorgan in Iran’s Golestan province. In Iran, the railway will be linked to national network making its way to the ports of the Persian Gulf. The project is estimated to cost US $620m which is being jointly funded by the governments of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran. Construction of the rail lines is in progress in the three countries. The Islamic Development Bank is financing Turkmenistan’s part of the road, and over 30% (over 250 km) have already been completed.[9]

The Iran–Turkmenistan Friendship Dam (or Doosti Reservoir Dam)

 

[Mech]

The thing is, gwadar is really now shitcanned, while chabhar is still moving along. Chinese interest in gwadar is almost zilch at the moment.

 

[FaujHistorian]

The thing is, gwadar is really now shitcanned, while chabhar is still moving along. Chinese interest in gwadar is almost zilch at the moment.

C'mon Mech bhai,

Why release hot air and call gwadar a $hitcan. It is a port, a functioning port and it is slowly being linked to the motorway system as well with rail net. It is a second port for mainland Pakistan and fits well in the long term plans. Chahbhar if you look at the map is not supporting Iran's major population centers and doesn't offer bigger and better facilities compared to other Iranian ports.

Still if Iran wants to develop chahbhar, my hats off to them.

I just had the issue with OP, the way it compares Chahbhar and Gawader. That's all.

If China ran away from Gawadar, India was shoo'd away from Iran by America bahadur. If India won't listen, Uncle Sam had other methods ready for them.

peace to you