Belarus has shipped the first lot of fertilizer to Iran along the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), according to Interfax. The shipment was made along the western route of the North-South ITC in the first half of June.
The ITC provides an alternative route for Belarusian exporters, representing a logistical innovation for multimodal supply chains to India, China, Bangladesh, and countries on the African continent through Iranian seaports.
The International North–South Transport Corridor is a 7,200-km multi-mode network of ship, rail, and road route for moving freight between India, Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, Central Asia, and Europe. The project started in 2002 and the first container shipments moved in 2017.
As of July 2022, Russia announced that it has successfully completed its first transport of goods to India via the INSTC. Land and rail transportation of fertilizer has become an alternate route to marine shipping for the movement of sanctioned Russian and Belarusian fertilizers.