The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) sees the Central Asian warehouse infrastructure as the “opportunity of the decade” and intends to significantly increase investments in this segment, Alexey Rogachevsky, EDB Director for Uzbekistan, said at the Central Asia Warehouse Summit (CAWS 2026) on April 16 in Tashkent.
Speaking at the Warehouses and Finance session, he presented the Bank’s approach to investments in logistics infrastructure, including project selection criteria and priorities for the Eurasian Commodity Distribution Network (ECDN) mega-project.
The key focus was placed on Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan as the most dynamically growing warehouse logistics markets in the region. Uzbekistan has been demonstrating steady growth in demand for modern warehouse facilities due to the development of e-commerce, consolidation of the country’s transit position and active government support.
The EDB focuses on financing infrastructure objects with integration effect – primarily on facilities located along the international North-South transport corridors and the Trans-Caspian route. Priority is given to multimodal logistics hubs and “dry ports”, as well as to specialized warehouse solutions: pharmaceutical, refrigeration and agro-logistic centers.
The development of warehouse infrastructure is one of the key elements of the EDB’s ECDN mega-project that focuses on the formation of a modern commodity distribution network in Eurasia. The Bank expects the region’s total foreign trade turnover to increase by more than 20% by 2030.
According to the EDB report “Warehousing Infrastructure in Eurasia: An Opportunity of the Decade” (October 2025), Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have been emerging as key hubs of Eurasian logistics and distribution, thus strengthening the region’s role as a link between China and Europe, Russia and South Asia/Middle East, as well as between the markets of the South Caucasus and the Caspian basin.
“To the EDB, Uzbekistan is not just a country of presence, but one of the key nodes of the future Eurasian commodity distribution network. Together with Kazakhstan, it can become the main distribution hub of Central Asia. We see here the ‘opportunity of the decade’ and are ready to act as an anchor investor in the formation of this infrastructure,” said Rogachevsky.
