Atlas Corridor
Component

Dushanbe–Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project, Phase I & II

road

Cities

Dushanbe
Tajikistan
Karamyk
Kyrgyzstan

Distance

344km
new
– km
rehabilitated
344km
existing
– km

Cost

$78.6m
$78,600,000

Phases

operational, 2010

Objective

“The project will help increase trade in Central Asia and economic growth in the Rasht Valley and Dushanbe. It will improve and create sustainable regional and national road networks.“-CAREC website

Description

Phase I covers improvement of about 140 kilometers (km) of the mostly two-lane highway from Dushanbe to Nurobod, and improvement of 77 km of rural roads in the project area. Phase II includes rehabilitation and improvement of the two-lane central and border sections of the Dushanbe–Kyrgyz Border Road and certain rural roads.

Finance

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$20500000 grant
Asian Development Bank Bank
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$44500000 loan
Asian Development Bank Bank
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$6000000 loan
OPEC Fund for International Development Development bank
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$7600000 investment
Government of Tajikistan Government