Russia, Iran and India Want to Bypass the Suez Canal Via the Persian Corridor 2.0 

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This isn't a question of by-passing the Suez Canal, it is an issue of the more efficient logistics option! Faster transit time thus reducing inventory costs.

MAJOR CORRECTION AT 19:12 you used term ALLY India does not subscribe to the term ally, no country is an ally of India. It's just partnership, it can be at different levels.

The Problem with India's neighborhood is that most of them (Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Myanmar) are under some sort of sanction from western nation that makes working with them on any infra project very difficult.

Excellent presentation! Great to hear details on the Persian Corridor.

A corridor for trade requires things worth trading. The biggest commodity of both Iran and Russia is fossil fuels; an Iran-Russia corridor does not help with that. (What will they do, swap oil with each other? Sell to oil-rich central Asian states? The big market for fossil fuels in that part of the world is India, so if anything, a corridor between Russia and Iran really just puts them in competition with each other.) All this corridor will do is create a trade imbalance that f*cks over the Russian people. The tech sanctions on Russia have killed what little manufacturing industry it had. The balance of trade will probably end up looking like: • Russia has demand for Iranian manufactured goods; • India has a demand for Russian raw resources (but Russia must compete against Iran and other central Asian countries for lowest price); • Iran will want from India those things it can't make itself due to sanctions. GG to the average Russian, who will never produce anything that anyone wants to buy, and who has zero economic future. Your government's big plan is to make you compete with Iran on oil prices and the average Indian on labour rates. But hey, who needs a future when vodka's cheap...

Redundancy is actually really good for trade and trade routes, no matter wich sides you are on

Thank you for the informative video on some of the underlying business concerns in these countries. 😊

Excellent presentation regarding a topic I've never previously heard mentioned, even briefly.

This bro is the new Chirvan from Caspian Report

6:20 Correction: 5 000 aircraft, not 50 000

Thank you for posting this video that gives so many informations regarding what may happen in the coming decades. I have to admit that I didn't know much about the topic and thanks to GTBT I am feeling better aware about geopolitics so far. Thank you again, I am going to subscribe to GTBT.

Very informative, thanks!

Good information. Thank you. I hadn’t heard of the INSTC, International North South Trade Corridor before and am glad too. It makes perfectly good sense for trade.

Very insightful content as always, thank you.

Excellent video. Thank you!

good reporting. Thanks!

And the incoming Z-boys in the comment section will claim that lend-lease to the USSR never happened.

The suez canal cost a lot of money for passageway which increases annually. Hence the increase in ship size to try and combat this cost. The speed of travel by land against by ship helps offset the cost to load/unload cargo to cross the Caspian sea. There is also a lot of distribution along the line of the railway system that would have to be brought down from northern ports if it was all transported to Russia by sea.

Very well made video , thanks and congrats

गहन शोध , स्पष्ट अवलोकन , प्रज्ञावान विश्लेषण और बहुत सुन्दर प्रस्तुति।

I feel that the US didn't care about Iran except for 1979 and Operation Ajax. This video gave us an interesting and insightful history lesson on Iran's modern history

Very good content thanks it is clear!!

That's a hell of an intermodal (train + road + sea) capacity requirement, I guess, but the way things are going - they better have a more expensive alternative than no alternative at all. Bearing in mind the due proportions, it is more or less the rationale behind the 2 Oceans Way Mercosur's Initiative (linking the Port of Santos-SP in Brazil, to the Pacific Ocean Chilean ports through Paraguay and Argentina).

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Thank you, BRICS, for showing us the way of progress through global cooperation. We ❤ BRICS. Let there be peace on earth and goodwill to all of humanity.

Very interesting, TY for the history as well as the current 2023 analysis.

excellent analysis. Thanks.

Very good analysis. Its hard to stay neutral when you have oil and a 1000km coastline.

everyone is forgetting fertilizers, which also double as explosives, and pesticides. there is also quite a lot of grain that could be exported. Oil is only known because it makes the greatest impact to west. oil pipelines are possible, but futile. for longer term stability, it is more likely something else will be traded.

Interesting video. Thanks

Good, clear presentation and I learnt so much. Thank you.

will Turkey and Israel sit by while Iran gets more powerful? Azerbaijan seems to be the linchpin to all these plans and yet you didnt mention it. i thought Turkey and to a lesser extend Israel were close to the Azerbaijan government.

India is Iran's best partners in direct access to Russia and Eastern Europe.

Excellent documentary, thank you

Thank you for the detailed history

There is an old German project to bypass the Suez Canal; It is extending a railway starting from Kuwait to Germany. But Britain stoped it by signing a protection agreement with Kuwait. The project can be revived by extending a railway from Kuwait to Europe via Iraq and Turkey.

Uzbekistan also should hold on with two trade paths. Throughout Turkmenistan+Iran and via Afganistan+Pakistan so both routes to rival for less custom and transit fee

Excellent overview very informative, Thank You.👍👍👍👍

Got a better grasp of the areas. Thanks.👍👍👍

It is nice that they are giving countries and easy target to disrupt trade.

The idea was kept in cold storage for a century because of the British (in possession of India) were wary of the Russian thrust to the warm waters of Indian Ocean, that was to be opposed. With the exit of European (colonial/imperial) powers from Asia, it came to light that the most "taken-for-granted" Pan-Asian route is really non-existent. INS Corridor will obviate that situation. In global trade, "transit" countries (that allow other countries' goods through them to the land-locked countries numbering 44) play a vital part, to open up a hitherto unrecognised potential of trade with interior countries. Iran is No.1 transit country simply because more Asian areas (the five - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan) have little access to sea. Iran (in tandem with Caspian Sea) will gain a lot through "transit fees" levied on the advantage vis-a-vis Suez canal that topped its capacity. Russia is the most disadvantaged maritime nation, though possessing (perhaps) the longest coast line. Probably 5% of it only is useful - in warm Black Sea & seasonally frozen Baltic Sea (with Black Sea route the winner). All that advantage will pass on to a land corridor through Iran. The huge crude oil deposits in Russian interior can only be economically transported through this North-South corridor, what with the Himalayan barrier for such transport corridors preventing any such effort. A system is already started in India receiving cheap Russian crude, that India is processing the crude (in Jamnagar refinery, the world's largest) and selling the down-stream products all over the world including the West. In fact there are nearer & less-congested ports than Bombay (you mentioned). Port Okha (Dwaraka) in Gujarat (India) that is about 100 miles from Jamnagar refinery of Ambanis, is about 500 nautical miles from Chah'bahar port in Iran on the Gulf of Oman, avoiding Persian gulf & its bottle-neck, Hormuz strait. A VLCC can cover the entire Arabian Sea transit in 25 hours at 20 knots. This is an excellent coverage that you gave, on the most vital transport link (corridor) of our times.

Great presentation, thank you.

Very good eye opening analysis and facts.

Chabahar is a far better choice than Bandar Abbas as the starting point of the corridor. It bypasses Strait of Hormuz and is far better port in terms of capacity and is closer to India. The beauty of it is that even Pakistan can use the same corridor via railroad as an alternate route,

When you got to move a lot of stuff, nothing is cheaper than floating it on a ship. Not a railroad or highway or airplane.

good report. covered the subject in details thanks from California

Thanks, Good Times Bad Times.

This will increase transportation costs tremendously. Russia loads grain onto grain ships in the Caspian Sea, moves them to an Iranian harbor on the Caspian Sea, unloads the grain from the ships and puts them on trains, which move across Iran to an Iranian port on the Persian Gulf, where it is loaded again onto a different ship to go to its final destination in India or China. Or instead, the grain is loaded onto ships in the Black Sea which travel through the Black Sea and the Suez Canal to their destination ports in India or China. No additional unloading / loading needed.

What I am seeing here is that instc benefits India the most, the only worthwhile thing all the other countries of instc can export to India (and each other for that matter) is oil and raw materials like metal, where as India can export a lot more, because of its bigger economy, better industrial capacity and better workforce, I don't see how is this going to benefit Russia or Central Asian Republics or even Iran for that matter as they can't trade with each other because they will essentially be exporting the same material to each other. And after this Ruso-Ukrainian war, I don't think Europe would be too keen on importing Russian or Iranian oil either (their biggest exports). And If India somehow manages to convince EU to accept indian exports through instc, It would only make India's case stronger. The best Iran and Russia will get from this trade route is cargo processing fee because they won't be adding anything of value to the exports, just like the Egyptians.

62,400 Tons per ship. 100 Tons per rail car. 26 Tons per truck. 1 Ore Vessel. = 624 Rail cars. = 2,400 Trucks. Great Lakes freighters

Very interesting film. Thanks.

India is truly about to enjoy its best century

You forgot to mention the Arctic convoys when we supplied Russia with food and weapons even though we had very little to spare or the number of merchant ships that were sent to the bottom while helping our Russian allies let alone the armed trawlers that armed with very little escorted them facing hardships and weather conditions that even with today’s technology would make many navies think twice

good history/info/analysis ; - )

Never heard of this. thank you.

I suggested the Silk Road and Belt project to Xi Peng many years ago. Getting these trade corridors open is a great idea, too.

.04 cents a mile by boat and .20 cents per mile by and\sea?.....not gonna happen.

LOL. One of the funniest things I've seen on RU-vid in quite a while.

Very good stuff.

The great game has been going on for 3 centuries with Russia trying to get a warm water port and being fought back by various nations.

Excellent, accurate and balanced video. Very rare,. A lot depends on Iran's cooperation which is compromised by the OIC. The survival of Iran and its historic ties to India rests on Iran's actions, not words, on this.. Hopefully they will make the right choice. India is inescapably the next big power they will have to deal with.

Good presentation thank you

That would be awesome and a game changer...!!!

What use would this corridor be if Russia completely sabotaged it's trade relationship with Europe? I also don't think the Europeans are in any hurry to create more trade relations with a country like Iran. India too doesn't have much to offer besides an exported workforce and this will happen regardless of an Iranian corridor.

USA itself buying products made with Russian crud from India. 🤣🤣🤣

Excellent presentation.

Good to know.excellent.Merci,shakran,shakrija

"United by complimentary grivience" That sounds like a toxic Reddit thread

Your transitions to the sponsor part of the video are so smooth that I almost don't skip them

Informative

Thanks

The only reason India seeks relations with Russia is because there are at least 3 countries between them where ever you look and Russia is not very good at waging war against non-neighbouring countries..

The exemptions from U.S sanctions in the Persian Corridor can be that investment into the Central Asian States economics to develop. Such access could promote outside investment in from India and an alternative to China. The United States did an exemption with the prior government in Afghanistan for the BRI investments in China to give investment in infrastructure and development. India most likely will the major financier for the project, Russia building railroads and Iran as a key connection for negations between the countries involved.

Beaitifull!

Birds of a feather tarred together.

Just hope India won't be played out by the US in future as its too close to Russia and Iran. The US using India to counter China rise is too simplistic. The reason being two Asian giants in close proximity will be annihilated if deadly weapons (tactical nuclear weapons too) are to be used and the US will be a happy spectator at another corner of the world just like what happen in Europe now. US is a warmongering expansionist power since its independence. Having created huge suffering to the people in middle east, it now trying to shift its military focus to Asia-Pacific region to contain China with some puppets' help.

Thanks for the wholesome research and analysis. Greetings from Iran. 👋

About time

China's position is ambiguous but to the extent that the corridor serves the interest of China, it harms the interest of India.

I think im experiencing deja vu. Did Caspian report talk about this? or someone else? EDIT: Amit Sengupta nade a video about this

It's a well balanced analysis which is difficult to find nowadays...

4:15 nothing personal guys Iraq just wanted to join the sport 🙂

This is what India (& Russia) have been looking forward, with Iran as the transit country. Suez canal is most convenient for European countries doing business with Asian maritime margins. It offers Russia an access to the Indian Ocean.

Good presentation and good contents

Excellent analysis based on facts !

sounds like a lot of bullshit to me ngl

Nicely done -- both balanced & informative. For those of us whose grasp of geopolitics does not include this part of the world you've provided a very helpful introduction. And, it's obvious (at least to me) that at least a few of the commenters are quite knowledgable about this topic. Thank you!

excellent thank you whatever is needed make it so you have my blessings united we stand

The word "Suez" will slip into antiquity as "Timbuktu".

It’s a great idea. But none of the countries actually trust each other. I’m waiting for China to make a military power play on Russia for oil, gas and land. In addition, the three countries combined couldn’t find something like that.

This sounds familiar oh wait for it's because they've talked about this idea before every decade and it never materializes why would now be any different. Also, the fact it would go sea to land than sea again is just going to make it extremely more expensive to ship things because Iran is a country with a large number of mountain ranges. Either they tunnel through them [which would take years] or go around which makes the trip longer

Very interesting.

its amazing how Iran geopolitical location connects almost 40 percent of world population and their markets to each other

Europe will always trade with India, but not if the corridor is Iran-ruzZia, only truth the Suez canal.

19:12 CORRECTION- India is no ally of US as of now. We have made our stance pretty clear from the very beginning. We are ally to no one. Ally is very much a western term. We believe in partnership where both the partners have the right to do things which is best for their interest. US has a very bad record in standing beside their allies. Historically they have abandoned many of their allies, backstabbed them, even when thet sell millitary hardware to nations it comes with terms and conditions. A country can purchase US weapon but will only be able to use it against someone if US approves. If US wants India to stand beside it in its time of need it will have to stop poking its nose in our internal matters, it will have to support the terror sponser Pakistan. If it respects our interests we will respect theirs.

Good vid. Not too moralizing or siding on either side of the conflict, but keeping it to the point. Well done!

" Necessity is the mother of Invention "

Excellent report

India playing its own great game right now