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The world's largest car-making corporation, Daimler-Chrysler, initiated a motor rally along the Silk Road under the aegis of the European Union.
A caravan of 10 trucks started from Stuttgart hauling more than 200 tons of humanitarian freight intended to rebuild Afghanistan. The action was also aimed at developing the Transport Corridor Europe - Caucasus - Asia (TRACECA), designed to provide economic growth and political stability in Central Asia. The TRACECA project, which incorporates 13 countries of Eastern Europe and Asia and is unofficially referred to as the New Silk Road, is the shortest ground transport route between Europe and Asia.
Journalists of the leading European transport media editions and Daimler-Chrysler employees drove 10 Mercedes-Benz trucks on their way through Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Herzegovina, and on to Bulgaria where the caravan reached the Black Sea coast. After crossing the sea from Bulgaria's port of Burgas to Georgia's Poti, the caravan passed Tbilisi and arrived in Baku (Azerbaijan), the city where the TRACECA Secretariat is headquartered. Than the caravan ferried across the Caspian Sea to Turkmenbashi port ((Turkmenistan) and covered nearly 1,200 kilometers on Turkmen territory to Ashgabat. Then the trucks turned north, to Uzbekistan, and passed through the ancient Silk Road cities - Bukhara and Samarkand.
The main idea of a motor rally along the Silk Road was to unite people of different countries and cultures. Another reason is that Daimler-Chrysler, the world's largest automobile producer, wishes to support and develop the TRACECA project. Organizers want to make it popular in Central Asia and known in Europe. For this reason organizers invited many European journalists to join the caravan and now wait for a wide response in European media. Organizers consider the TRACECA project very important because automobile transport is the cheapest and most flexible way for freight delivery.
From the very beginning organizers were inspired by the images of Samarkand and Bukhara, the major historical centers on the Great Silk Road. The project created international advertising for the historical cities, Bukhara and Samarkand. This job was done by western journalists who traveled with the caravan. So in the near future the region will see new tourists from Europe.
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