Uzbekistan Humanitarian Background

For more detailed database on disasters by country, please see the Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters:

EMDAT information on Uzbekistan

Calamities and Seasonal Affects

Capacity and Contacts for In-Country Emergency Response

Government

Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Uzbekistan has been established by the Decree of President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On Establishment of Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Uzbekistan” №UP-1378 dated March 4, 1996 and Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On issues of activity organization of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Uzbekistan” №143 dated April 11, 1996. Regulations and structure of the Ministry of Emergency Situations have been approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On issues of activity organization of the Ministry of the Republic of Uzbekistan of Emergency Situations” №143 dated April 11, 1996.

For information on Uzbekistan Ministry of Emergency Situations, please see the following documents:

Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan Civil Protection diagram

Uzbekistan Legislative Foundation of Civil Protection

Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.

For information on Uzbekistan Government contact details, please see the following link:

4.1 Uzbekistan Government Contact List

Humanitarian Community

For information on Uzbekistan Humanitarian Community contact details, please see the following link:

4.2 Uzbekistan Humanitarian Agency Contact List

For information on Uzbekistan Humanitarian Community additional details, please see the following document:

Uzbekistan Humanitarian Organizations Additional Information

Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.

Uzbekistan Regulatory Departments

For information on Uzbekistan Regulatory departments, please see the following document:

Uzbekistan Regulatory Department Additional Information

Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.

For details on Uzbekistan Regulatory department contact details, please see the following link: 

4.1 Uzbekistan Government Contact List

Uzbekistan Customs Information

For a  brief summary of customs regulations for private business , please see the following document:

Uzbekistan Customs Regulations for Private Business

Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.

Duties and Tax Exemption

For contact information regarding government custom authorities, please follow the link below: 

4.1 Uzbekistan Government Contact List

The State Customs Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan has been established by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On establishment of State Customs Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan” UP – 1815 dated July 8, 1997. Regulations and organizational structure of the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan have been approved by the Resolution of the Cabinet Ministers “On issues of activity of State Customs Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan” №374 dated July 30, 1997.

Main tasks of bodies of State Customs Committee are as follows:

• protection of economic interests and ensuring economic security of the republic within the framework of given authority;
• participation in development and realization of customs policy of the republic;
• realization of control over observance of customs legislation;
• protection of the rights and interests of the citizens, and legal persons on customs issues;
• assistance to development of foreign economic relations of the republic;
• cooperation with customs bodies of foreign states, international organizations in the sphere of customs;
• and participation in the international customs and trade organizations;
• execution of obligations concerning customs, stipulated in the international contracts of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
• collection of customs duties, taxes and other customs payments.

Emergency Response:

[Note: This section contains information which is related and applicable to 'crisis' times. These instruments can be applied when an emergency is officially declared by the Government.  When this occurs, there is usually a streamlined process to import goods duty and tax free.]

In the following table, state which of the following agreements and conventions apply to the country and if there are any other existing ones

Exemption Certificate Application Procedure: 

From the customs duties are exempted:

The property imported by foreign investors and enterprises with foreign investments in the Republic of Uzbekistan for own industrial needs;
The goods imported by foreign legal entities, which made direct investments into economy of the Republic of Uzbekistan for a total sum of more than USD 50 million provided that the imported goods are goods of their own production;
The goods, works and the services intended for work under the Production Sharing Agreement and imported into the Republic of Uzbekistan according to project documentation by the foreign investor or other entities, participating in performance of works under the Production Sharing Agreement, and also goods exported by the investor belonging to him/her according to the Production Sharing Agreement;
Technological equipment imported to the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan along with the list approved in accordance with the with the legislation and spare parts under conditions if their delivery is envisaged by conditions of contracts for delivery of technological equipment. In case of realization and gratis transfer of imported technological equipment for export within three (3) years from the moment of its import, this privilege is annulled with the rehabilitation of duties on payment of value added tax for the whole period of application of the privilege.
Enterprises attracting direct foreign investment and specializing in the production of radio electronic devices, computers' components, ready-made cotton fabric and woolen cloth, ready-made garments, knitwear, socks and stockings and textile, processing of leather, production of footwear and ready-made leather and haberdashery goods, production of silk cloth and ready-made products made of silk, production of new kinds of building materials, industrial production of poultry meat and eggs, production of finished products undergone industrial processing produced from local raw materials (with the exception of alcoholic and soft drinks and tobacco products), production of finished meat, milk products, cheese and animal oil, production of medicines, synthetic detergents, and household chemical goods are exempted from payment of profit tax, property tax, tax imposed on improvement and development of social infrastructure, unified tax payment or unified tax, imposed on microcompanies and small enterprises deriving their income from main line of their activity, as well as from mandatory deductions to the Republic Road Fund.

Exemption Certificate Document Requirements

Customs Clearance

General Information 

The list of goods for personal use are permitted to enter the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Guests arriving to Uzbekistan as well as residents of the Republic of Uzbekistan can import the following items to the territory of a country:
foreign currency in cash in unlimited amount declared in a customs declaration, Form T-6. Foreign currency imported in cash in the amount of 5000 dollars US or equal amount of other currencies is allowed to be imported to our country with obligatory filling out a cus-toms declaration; foreign currency in cash in the amount exceeding the equivalent of 5000 dollars US is allowed to be imported into the Republic with Certification TC-28 issued by customs authorities. As per request of a resident or non-resident foreign currency in cash can be deposited for storage with a receipt TC-21 free of charge;
pharmaceuticals for personal use: insulin and other antidiabetic medicaments with limited amount of 30 packages. The indicated amount of medicines permitted for once importation is determined on the basis of approximate calculation of the amount of 10 ampoules or 30 tablets (capsules and other dosed pharmaceuticals) per a package. If a package contains more pharmaceuticals total amount of ampoules and tablets should be taken into account in accordance with the provided list.
consumer goods of total cost not exceeding the amount equal to 50 (fifty) dollars US if these goods are imported for personal use from territories of contiguous countries. These goods are not charged at the customs;
goods of total cost not exceeding the amount equal to 1000 (thousand) dollars US if these goods are imported for personal use from territories of non-contiguous countries including Ukraine. These goods are not charged at the customs (VTA, customs duty, registration fee);
goods for personal use are subject to excise duty in the limits of non-excise importation if these goods are imported from territories of non-contiguous countries.

Individuals should pay the following customs duty when importing goods above level for personal use:

• duty to be paid by individuals - 20% of value exceeding rate of duty-free importation;

• customs duty - as per established rates of value exceeding duty-free allowance;

• excise duty - as per established rates of value exceeding excise-free allowance;

• value added tax - 20% of value exceeding duty-free allowance added by customs duty subject to be paid, in case of excisable goods the allowance should be added by excise duty also.

Note: Individuals importing goods in the determined limits of duty-free allowance are ob-liged to fill out a customs declaration, Form T-6.

If individuals import goods for commercial purposes they have to be registered as individual entre-preneurs with the right of export-import operations.

For information on Uzbekistan Customs Clearance details, please see the following document:

Uzbekistan Customs Information Additional Details

Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.

Customs Clearance Document Requirements

Uzbekistan Port Assessment

Double landlocked Uzbekistan has no seaports. Its main river port is Termez on the Amu Darya river. Although Termez lacks modern facilities and has a shortage of spare parts, activity there has increased as conditions in neighboring Afghanistan have stabilized. Termez has been an important transfer point for humanitarian supplies entering Afghanistan. Uzbekistan has 1,100 kilometers of inland waterways. Since the mid-1990s, commercial travel on Uzbekistan’s portion of the Amu Darya has been reduced because of low water levels.

Uzbekistan Aviation 

Key airport information may also be found at: World Aero Data information on Uzbekistan

There are currently 11 airports in Uzbekistan that are operated by Uzbekistan Airways National AirCompany. Six of them: Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Urgench, Termez and Navoi airports are international.

The State Inspection of the Republic of Uzbekistan for flight safety supervision (Gosavianadzor) has been established by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministries of the Republic of Uzbekistan “On establishment the State Inspection of the Republic of Uzbekistan for flight safety supervision” №255 dated June 16, 1998. The status and structure of Gosavianadzor have been approved by the given Resolution.

For information on the tasks and functions of The State Inspection of the Republic of Uzbekistan for flight safety supervision (Gosavianadzor), please see the following document:

Main Functions and Tasks of The State Inspection of the Republic of Uzbekistan for flight safety supervision

For information on Uzbekistan Airport Customs Regulations, please see the following document:

Uzbekistan Airport Customs Regualtions

Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.

Procedures for Foreign Registered Aircraft

For information on Uzbekistan Procedures for Foreign Registered Aircraft, please contact the airport authorities. Details are provided in the following Uzbekistan Airport company contact list: 

4.5 Uzbekistan Airport Company Contact List

Uzbekistan Road Network

Uzbekistan's road system comprises 42,500 km of major highways and 183,000 km of other roads. It provides connections to all provinces, communities, and neighboring countries. The role of road transport in the national economy is increasing. Road network stretches all over republic and is fairly operating condition with several limitations in winter time, in mountain areas due to heavy snow or ice.

For information on Uzbekistan Road Network contact detailks, please see the following link: 

4.1 Uzbekistan Government Contact List

Distance Matrix

Road Security

Mostly the Road security is  good.
Tashkent to Andijan :There is possibility of road congestion during cotton harvest time. Probably delays in winter time at mountain passes, due to possible snow fall.
Road stretches (Andijan to Ferghana) :In case of civil unrest or earth quick scenario it will be better to arrangegovernment i.e. Ministry of Emergency escort to the south regions
Road from Tashkent to Samargant : There is possibility of road congestion during cotton harvest time. Probably delays in winter time at mountain passes, due to possible snow fall.

Road Class and Surface Conditions

Uzbekistan has a developed but inconsistently maintained traffic infrastructure. Although main roads in central Tashkent are relatively well maintained, many secondary roads inside and outside Tashkent, and particularly those in the Tien Shan Mountains, are in poor condition and may be passable only by four-wheel-drive vehicles. Driving at night can be quite dangerous because only the main roads in Tashkent and a few other major cities have streetlights; rural roads and highways generally are not lit. Visitors are strongly urged to avoid driving at night outside Tashkent. The gasoline supply can be sporadic; therefore, travelers should expect occasional difficulty finding gasoline, particularly outside Tashkent.
Livestock, as well as farm equipment and carts drawn by animals that lack lights or reflectors, are found on both urban and rural roads at any hour. Local drivers are not familiar with safe driving techniques. Pedestrians in cities and rural areas cross streets unexpectedly and often without looking for oncoming traffic. Uzbekistan has a large road police force, which frequently stops drivers for minor infractions or simple document checks. There have been reports of harassment of foreign drivers by the road police, with reported minor police corruption in the form of solicitation of bribes. Uzbekistan has a “zero tolerance” policy for driving under the influence of alcohol

For information on Uzbekistan Road Network additional information, please see the following documents:

Uzbekistan Road Corridor Assessment - Transport Corridors 1

Uzbekistan Road Corridor Assessment - Transport Corridors 2

Uzbekistan Road Corridor Assessment - Transport Corridors 3

Uzbekistan Road Corridor Assessment - Transport Corridors 4

Uzbekistan Road Corridor Assessment - Trans-Afghan Transport Corridor

Uzbekistan Road Corridor Assessment - Transport Corridors

Uzbekistan Transport Corridors

Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.

Uzbekistan Railway Assessment

The Uzbek Railways (Uzbek: Oʻzbekiston Temir Yoʻllari) are the national rail carrier of Uzbekistan. The company owns and operates all railways within the country. It is a state-owned stock company, formed in 1994 to operate railways within the former Uzbek SSR. The total length of its main railway network is 3,645 km. It employs 54,700 people. Uzbekistan railways linking Termez, Samarkand, Bukhara, the Fergana Valley and Nukus. There are two train stations in Tashkent - North and South.The Trans-Caspian Railway traverses the country from Turkmenabad in Turkmenistan via Kagan (nearBukhara),Samarkand and Jizzakh, where the railway branches off to serve the capital Tashkent.

The following international trains operate to/from Uzbekistan:

train 5/6 Tashkent - Moskva, 4 times weekly
train 381/382: Tashkent - Ufa, 3 times weekly
train 365/366: Tashkent - Celjabinsk, once weekly
train 395/396: Tashkent - Kharkov, once weekly
train 321/322: Nukus - Samarkand - Tashkent - Almaty, once weekly
train 369/370: Tashkent - Almaty - Barnaul - Novosibirsk, every 4 days
train 331/332: Tashkent - Samarkand - Nukus - Saratov, once weekly
train 333/334: Tashkent - Samarkand - Urgench - Nukus - Saratov, once weekly
train 383/384: Tashkent - Samarkand - Nukus - St. Peterburg, once weekly
Kungrad - Bejneu, daily

For information on Uzbekistan Railway Network additional informaiton, please see the following documents:

Uzbekistan Railway timetable

Uzbekistan Railmap

Uzbekistan New Railway line - Hayraton to Mazar-e-sharif

Uzbekistan New Railway Lines map

Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.

Travel Time Matrix

Railway Companies and Consortia

For information on Uzbekistan Railway Network Company contact details, please see the following link:

4.3 Uzbekistan Railway Company Contact List

Uzbekistan Railways: State Joint Stock Railway Company "Uzbekistan Railways" is proud to offer the following services:

Freight forwarding and cargo delivery to all international transport corridors;
Transportation of passengers and cargo (luggage);
Travel and transportation service on the Great Silk Road in the cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and Tashkent; http://www.uzrailpass.uz/
Search and tracking of wagons;
All repairs of passenger cars using the latest equipment;
All repairs to diesel and electric locomotives;
Manufacturing and service life of freight cars.

Capacity Table

There are three types of trains:

• fast trains (skory poyezd) or express trains (train nos 1 to 149)
• slower trains (skorostnoi poyezd) (train nos 151 to 169), and
• passenger trains (passazhirski poyezd) (train nos 171 to 699).

There are four types of sleepers:

• soft wagon (miagki vagon) - 2 berth compartments
• kupeiny vagon - 4 berth compartments
• platskartny vagon - benches in a large car
• obshi vagon - third class-crowded

Key Route Information

The main line Tashkent - Samarkand - Bukhara is served by two express trains named "Registon" and "Sharq": The "Registon" brings you from Tashkent in less than 4 hours to Samarkand and the "Sharq" makes the 600-km-journey Tashkent - Bukhara (with intermediate stop in Samarkand) in about 7,5 hours. A daily overnight train from Tashkent to Bukhara offers the possibility to travel during the night and win one day. Comfortable sleeping cars allow a good sleep.
Recently a new train "Afrosiob" started operating on Tashkent - Samarkand line. This Talgo-250-type train makes a respective distance in 2.5 hours time. Unlike to ordinary local trains, there are 3 classes in "Afrosiob": economy class - 36 persons per carriage room, in business and VIP. Economy class costs 46 thousand soums (roughtly $25 at official rate), business class - 65 thousand soums and VIP - 80 thousand soums. You may also expect some free drinks and snacks. It is planned to extend the "Afrosiob" line to Bukhara and, subsequently, to Khiva by 2014-2015. Overnight trains also run from Tashkent and Samarkand to Urgench (3 times weekly) and to Nukus - Kungrad (2 times weekly), so it's also possible to travel to Khiva (30 kilometers from Urgench, taxi/bus available) or to the Aral lake (Moynaq, 70 km from Kungrad) by train.

Uzbekistan Waterways Assessment

Double landlocked Uzbekistan has no seaports. Its main river port is Termez on the Amu Darya river. Although Termez lacks modern facilities and has a shortage of spare parts, activity there has increased as conditions in neighboring Afghanistan have stabilized. Termez has been an important transfer point for humanitarian supplies entering Afghanistan. The river Amu Darya divides the two countries of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and the Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge crosses the river to Hairatan in Afghanistan. Termez is also served by Termez Airport, with flights to Tashkent and Moscow. Termez is connected with Uzbek Railways to other cities of the countries and Mazar-i-Sharif,Afghanistan. Uzbekistan has 1,100 kilometers of inland waterways. Since the mid-1990s, commercial travel on Uzbekistan’s portion of the Amu Darya has been reduced because of low water levels.

Company Information

For information on Uzbekistan Waterway Company contact details, please see the following link: 

4.4 Uzbekistan Port and Waterways Company Contact List

Uzbekistan Storage Assessment

For information on Uzbekistan storage company contact details, please see the following link: 

4.6 Uzbekistan Storage and Milling Company Contact List

Commercial Storage

Uzbekistan Milling Assessment

Milling Company: G. A. Corp.

Milling Company: State Joint Stock Foreign Trade Company "Uzprommashimpeks"

Milling Company: Gelora Trade inc

Uzbekistan Fuel

The capital city Tashkent is the largest city in Central Asia and today Uzbekistan is rich in natural resources, including oil, gas, gold and uranium. In 2010, Uzbekistan was the largest producer of gas in Central Asia and ranked 14th worldwide.
Uzbekistan has five oil and gas bearing regions with proven industrial reserves namely the Ustyurt, Bukhara‐Khiva, Ghissar, Surkhandarya and Ferghana. Currently there are a total of 202 hydrocarbon sites in the country and the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2011 lists proven reserves as 0.6 billion barrels of oil and 1.6 trillion cubic metres of natural gas. Uzbekistan is a sizable exporter of natural gas and the US State Department estimates that Uzbekistan exported 15.2 billion cubic metres of natural gas in 2009 and, as a share of total world natural gas production, Uzbekistan represented some 2% at the end of 2009. The US State Department estimates that natural gas exports are now the country's dominant source of foreign currency earnings (surpassing the role of the cotton industry). The gas pipeline infrastructure is well developed with some 13,000 km of gas pipelines at present. Gas is exported to Russia and Europe through the Bukhara‐Urals and Asia‐ Centre trunklines and, with the completion of the Central Asia ‐ China gas pipeline, gas exports eastwards will commence. Although Uzbekistan is primarily a gas producer, it also produces reasonable quantities of oil ‐ some 87,000 barrels per day, in 2010. Despite its significant existing oil and gas production, there are still large areas of Uzbekistan relatively underexplored, and significant existing deposits still available for investment and further co‐operation.

For information on Uzbekistan Fuel Company contact details, please see the following link: 

4.7 Uzbekistan Fuel Provider Contact List

For information on Uzbekistan Fuel additional details, please see the following document:

 Uzbekistan Fuel Data Table - Coal

Uzbekistan Fuel Data Table - Electricity

Uzbekistan Fuel Data Table - Natural Gas

Uzbekistan Fuel Data Table - Petroleum

Uzbekistan Fuel Data Table - Total Primary Energy

Uzbekistan Energy Additional Details

Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.

Fuel Pricing

Seasonal Variations 

Fuel Transportation

The Fuel distribution infrastructure is divided into three major segments; Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary. Collectively these systems employ tankers, barges, rail cars, tank trucks, thousands of miles of pipeline, and hundreds of storage terminals, and of course the refineries. By petroleum industry definition the Primary Distribution System includes oil gathering at the well head, transport to gathering tanks, crude oil storage, and refinery processing. The secondary system is downstream of the refinery and includes finished product pipelines and destination terminals. Product is moved to refinery finished product tankage for distribution into the product transportation network. This includes transfer to tanks for shipment into pipelines and for many refineries to tankage for loading waterborne cargoes (i.e. tankers or barges). The refined products pipeline system consists of approximately 72,000 miles of line and carries well over half of the gasoline to market. Product moved by pipeline, ship or barge is transported to bulk storage finished product terminals. A finished product terminal may consist of just a few small tanks storing perhaps 50,000 barrels or numerous tanks, both large and small, storing a combined total of millions of barrels of finished
product. It may in some cases be owned by an individual petroleum company, jointly operated by two or more companies, or it may be independently owned by a company whose sole purpose is the storage and outloading of their customers' products. Some terminals may store and distribute only gasoline or diesel. Larger terminals typically handle a full range of light products. Terminals may receive product by either pipeline, barge, ship, or rail or some combination
thereof. In addition, some terminals can receive product via transport truck. Terminals serving the
retail markets have one or more transport truck loading racks. There are hundreds of gasoline distribution terminals across the United States. From the finished product terminal, product is then distributed by transport tank truck to the retail outlets and, in some cases, to bulk plants. A small amount of product is also moved by rail.

Standards, Quality and Testing

Uzbekistan Transporters

Uzbekistan’s road transport system moves 10% of the international cargo that passes through the country. It also moves 88% of Uzbekistan’s domestic passenger and short haul cargo traffic. Uzbekistan’s 83,000-kilometer (km) highway system, about 90% of which is paved, is strategically important to its neighbors as transit routes for interregional and intra-regional transport. As an example, Uzbek roads provide a year-round linkage between northern and southern Tajikistan. Most of the 1,500 km of highways the consultant traveled in are in fairly good condition and can be classified as Class 1 or Class 2 under Asian highway standards. However, roads in the country are constructed based on former Soviet Union (FSU) standards and thus may not be able to handle large amounts of heavy truck traffic. Many highway sections traversed regularly by heavy trucks have crumbled pavements and a substantial number of potholes. Also, arterial roads and city streets are generally in poor condition. This is mainly the result of insufficient maintenance work, with the budget for maintaining primary roads remaining inadequate.
The Uzbek trucking industry is underdeveloped. It is estimated that there are fewer than 2,000 Uzbek trucks, most consisting of old Russian equipment. Meanwhile, foreign-owned trucks, mostly those from Turkey, Iran, and the Russian Federation, are in much better condition. Large numbers of foreign competitors are taking business away from local trucking companies in Uzbekistan.

For information on Uzbekistan Transporters company contact details, please see the following link:

4.8 Uzbekistan Transporter Contact List

Uzbekistan Additional Service Providers: Vehicle Rental, Taxi Companies, Freight Forwarding Agents, Handling Equipment, Power Generation and ISPs

For information on Uzbekistan Additional Service Provider contact details, please see the following link: 

4.9 Uzbekistan Additional Service Provision Contact List

Vehicle Rental

For information on Uzbekistan vehicle rental prices, please see the following docuement: 

Uzbekistan Vehicle Rental Price List

Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.

Taxi Companies

Taxis and cars for rent are available in all the major towns and cities of Uzbekistan. They are a good option for getting around and the only option when traveling at night. Official cabs are recommended, but visitors will most often find unlicensed cabs. At any rate, you should always agree on a price before getting in. There are a number of cab companies whose vehicles can be rented by phone. 
Sared taxis are also available. While not the most comfortable or the most reliable form of transportation, they offer a local experience for travelers. On some routes, such as Khiva to Urgench or Bukhara, Nukus or Khiva, shared taxis may be the only local transport available. Travelers need to ask around the taxi ranks to find a taxi which is heading to their destination. Schedules are not fixed and fares aren’t set in stone, so travelers need to be patient and negotiate with the driver.
There are no car rental agencies in the country. You can rent a car, but it will essentially be a cab with a driver. Bringing your own car is possible but travelers are advised to check travel restrictions with regard to driving as some areas, such as Termez and the Surkhandarya region, require a special permit from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tashkent. While Uzbekistan is connected by road to its neighbors, not all borders are safe to cross and some are indeed closed. It is always best to check beforehand. Generally, an International Driving Permit is required for driving in Uzbekistan along with valid insurance from your home country. Driving is on the right. Seatbelts are not required.
Buses are only recommended for the most adventurous of foreign travelers. Many local buses are old and rickety, and keep unreliable schedules, running very slowly and breaking down often. Newer, more comfortable private buses are slowly emerging. However, schedules are still unreliable as most operators readily throw away the timetable to wait for more passengers. Personal provisions such as toilet paper and reliable, clean food must be taken with you when traveling by bus as journey can be long.

Freight Forwarding Agents

Uzbekistan’s logistics sector is composed of a diverse group of freight forwarders and logistics companies, including local firms and those from the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Switzerland, the Republic of Korea, and the PRC. These companies offer mostly traditional forwarding and warehousing services. Supply chain management and third-party logistics services are still at an embryonic stage of development in the country.

Electricity and Power 

The Power Industry of Uzbekistan operates in the framework of the State Joint Stock Company ”Uzbekenergo”, established in the form of open joint stock company including the Coal Industry enterprises since 2001.
The company structure includes 53 enterprises and organizations, including 39 open joint-stock companies, 11 unitary enterprises, 2 societies with limited liability and company branch-“Energosotish”.
At present, all enterprises affiliated the company structure and being the subject for privatization already denationalized except two.
In accordance with Decree NoPP-407 of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated 10.07.2006 “On extension of privatization process 2006-2008”, the privatization of unitary enterprise “Talimardjan TPP” is planned for 2007, and privatization of unitary enterprise “Tashkent TPP” is planned for 2008.
As for now, the company performs the centralized electric power supply of national economy and population, and also sale of thermal energy to industrial and domestic consumers in distinct cities of the Republic.
During the economic reform years, the Power Industry’s enterprises annually generate up to 48bln.kW/h of electric power and more than 10 mln. Gcal of thermal power that fully meet the economic and population demand of the country.
The installed capacity of Power Plants of Uzbekistan exceeds 12,3 mln. kW equal to 50% of all generating capacities of the Interconnected Power System of Central Asia.
SJSC ”Uzbekenergo”, having the 39 Power Plants of total installed capacity 12,0 mln. kW is actually the key producer and supplier of electric power in the Republic. The share of Department Power Plants in the structure of generated capacities produces not less than 3% (320MW).
The installed capacity of Power Plants is enough to meet the growing demand consumption of the Republic, for implementation of export power supply commitments and keeping the energy security of the country.
The Thermal Power Plants of total capacity 10,6mln. kW is the base of the Power System of Uzbekistan. The power units of capacity from 150 to 800 MW each are set up at 5 big Thermal Power Plants.
These are such a big Thermal Power Plants as Talimardjan, Syr-darya, Novo-Angren and
Tashkent TPP’s generating over 85% of electric power.
All Hydro Power Plants of the company in general are united into cascades of HPP’s and operate based on waterway. The largest HPPs are located in the upper of Chirchik river (Charvak HPP, Khodjikent HPP, Gazalkent HPP) and have the water storage basins allowing to operate in regulation capacity mode.
For power generation at TPP’s the gas share usage is 90,8%, mazut is 5,3% and coal is 3,9%. This tendency shall be keeping in the nearest future, gas remains as the main fuel and the share of coal increases up to 10-12% in fuel balance.
The power transmission and distribution are fulfilled by means of power transmission lines of 0,4-500kV to all consumers of the Republic.
The extension of power transmission lines are over 235 thousand km. All consumers are connected to centralized power supply system.
The arrangement of power transmission lines of 220-500kV with 7,5 thousand km extension provides the stable operation of power system, the transmission of power from the Power Plants to the load centre, passing supply of power to the cross-boarder countries.
The most branched power transmission lines are the distributing mains of 0,4- 6- 10 kV. Through the distributing mains the power supply effected to the customers of the Republic.
It is worthwhile to say that the main volume of power supply accrued to industrial enterprises, agricultural consumers and population. The share of annual power consumption along the Republic is 1940kW/h per capita.

For infpormation on Uzbekistan Power and Electricity additional information, please see the following documents: 

Uzbekistan Structure of Electric Power Consumption in 2006

Uzbekistan Structure of Installed Capacities of Power Plants

Uzbekistan Electricity and Power Additional Information

 Uzbekistan Electricity Price information

Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

There were over 9 million Internet users in Uzbekistan as of 19 March 2012, according to Uzbekistan's Agency for Communications and Information (UzACI). The "Uzbek Internet" is sometimes called "Uznet", akin to Runet. The country code (top level domain) for Uzbekistan is .uz

For information on Uzbekistan ISP providers, please see the following link: Uzbekistan Golden Pages Website

For information on Uzbekistan Additional Service Provider contact details, please see the following link: 

4.9 Uzbekistan Additional Service Provision Contact List

Uzbekistan Manual Labour Costs

Literacy in Uzbekistan is almost universal, and workers are generally well-educated and trained accordingly in their respective fields. Most local technical and managerial training does not meet international business standards, but foreign companies engaged in production report that locally hired workers learn quickly and work effectively. The government emphasizes foreign education. In 2009 Turin Polytechnik University was opened. It is the only university in Central Asia that prepares high quality employees for industries. With the closing or downsizing of many foreign firms, it is relatively easy to find qualified employees, though salaries are very low by Western standards. Salary caps, which the government implements in an apparent attempt to prevent firms from circumventing restrictions on withdrawal of cash from banks, prevent many foreign firms from paying their workers as much as they would like. Labor market regulations in Uzbekistan are similar to those of the Soviet Union, with all rights guaranteed but some rights unobserved. Unemployment is a growing problem, and the number of people looking for jobs in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Southeast Asia is increasing each year. Uzbekistan's Ministry of Labor does not publish information on Uzbek citizens working abroad, but Russia's Federal Migration Service reports 2.5 million Uzbek migrant workers in Russia. There are also indications of up to 1 million Uzbek migrants working illegally in Kazakhstan.Uzbekistan's migrant workers may thus be around 3.5-4 million people, or a staggering 25% of its labor force of 14.8 million. The U.S. Department of State also estimates that between three and five million Uzbek citizens of working age live outside Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan Telecommunications 

For information on Uzbekistan Telecommunications contact details, please see the following link: 

4.9 Uzbekistan Additional Service Provision Contact List

Telecommunications networks in Uzbekistan are largely based on Soviet-built infrastructure but with many modern additions, making the country one of the leading in the region in terms of informational development.
In 2012, the telecommunications services volume grew by 22.5% year-on-year in Uzbekistan. The amount of broadband ports installed totalled 378,000 across the country at the end of 2012, up by 55.5% year-on-year. The number of ports in active use was 202,700 up by 37.2%. A total of 1,576 km of fibre optic backbone lines were deployed across the country in the same year.

There are digital exchanges in large cities and rural areas.
The main line telecommunications system is dilapidated and telephone density is low. The state-owned telecommunications company, Uzbektelecom, has used loans from the Japanese government and the China Development Bank to improve mainline services. The completion of conversion to digital exchanges was in 2010. Mobile services are growing rapidly, with the subscriber base reaching 25 million in 2011.
Uzbekistan is linked by fiber-optic cable or microwave radio relay with CIS member states and to other countries by leased connection via the Moscow international gateway switch. After the completion of the Uzbek link to the Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic cable,[3] Uzbekistan plans to establish a fiber-optic connection to Afghanistan
Currently, Uzbekistan has four AM stations, 12 FM stations, and three shortwave stations. Additionally, as of 1997, there are an estimated 10.2 million radios in use in Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan has 28 television broadcast stations. This includes one cable rebroadcaster in Taskent and approximately 20 stations in regional capitals

Telecommunication Regulation

For a long time Uzbekistan’s telecom infrastructure remained outmoded and inadequate. The country has been struggling to bring its telecommunications system up to the standard found in developed markets. Nevertheless, over the last decade or so, the situation has been gradually improving. This has in part been due to the government’s decision to give national priority to Information and Communications Technologies. Consequently there has been an upward trend in the country’s telecom market, with increased investment in infrastructure, expanding subscriber bases and rising revenues. The government’s strategic policy was to privatise the incumbent operator Uzbektelecom and to open the market to competition in accordance with the country’s aim to join the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The telecom sector has been regulated by the Uzbek Agency for Communications and Information (UzACI) since the creation of the agency in 2002/2003. In 2005 the UzACI approved a telecommunications investment program for the period 2005-2010. Among other things, the program aimed to increase the total number of fixed lines to 2.2 million and achieve 100% digitalisation of the network by 2010. The fixed line subscriber target was not achieved with subscriber numbers still languishing below 1.9 million. And only about two-thirds of the network was digital by 2007, but by March 2009 this has been lifted sharply to 89%, according to the Uzbek Agency for Communications and Information, and effectively achieved the target by end-2010. In the meantime fixed teledensity was stuck on around 7%. The five year telecom investment program also aimed at accomplishing marked improvements in mobile telephone and internet penetration. By 2011 both these segments of the market had shown significantly gains, with the mobile market in particular having expanded rapidly over the five years. Subscriber numbers had jumped from around one million to 21 million over the plan period. Funding for the investment program was provided by loans and foreign investment, the internal resources of operators and providers, as well as from government funding.

For information on Uzbekistan Telecommunications additional information, please see the following document: 

Uzbekistan Telecommunications Regulations Additional Information

Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.

Uzbekistan Food Suppliers, Accommodation and Other Markets

For information on Uzbekistan Food suppliers, Accomodation and Other Markets contact details, please see the following link: 

4.9 Uzbekistan Additional Service Provision Contact List

Uzbekistan Government Contact List

Uzbekistan Humanitarian Agency Contact List

Uzbekistan Railway Company Contact List

Uzbekistan Port and Waterways Company Contact List

Uzbekistan Airport Company Contact List

Uzbekistan Storage and Milling Company Contact List

Uzbekistan Fuel Provider Contact List

Uzbekistan Transporter Contact List

Uzbekistan Additional Service Provision Contact List