{"id":4573,"date":"2023-01-20T02:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T20:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2025-03-27T01:10:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:40:03","slug":"what-is-international-northsouth-transport-corridor-instc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-international-northsouth-transport-corridor-instc\/","title":{"rendered":"What is International North\u2013South Transport Corridor (INSTC)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Key facts about International North-South Transport Corridor<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a multimodal transportation agreement formed with a trilateral agreement between India, Iran and Russia at the Euro-Asian Conference on Transport in 2000.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It links the <strong>Indian Ocean<\/strong> to the Caspian Sea via the Persian Gulf onwards into Russia and Northern Europe.<\/li>\n<li>The corridor encompasses <strong>sea, road and rail routes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The main purpose of the corridor was to <strong>reduce carriage costs<\/strong> and transit time between India and Russia. The transit time is expected to reduce to almost half, once the corridor becomes fully functional.<\/li>\n<li>The agreement has been <strong>ratified by 13 countries<\/strong> namely, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Armenia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Oman, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>About Chabahar Port<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located Off the Gulf of Oman in Iran\u2019s southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan &amp; is the only Iranian port with direct access to the ocean.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Where strait of Hormuz?<\/h3>\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1892221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Workshop conducted on \u2018Linking Chabahar Port with INST<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International North\u2013South Transport Corridor  is a multimodal transportation agreement between India, Iran and Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}