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Central Asia & Caucasus

Infrastructure advisory for Central Asia and the Caucasus

CPCS helps you move infrastructure projects from strategy and planning to successful delivery

Your partner for infrastructure decisions that shape regional growth

How we can help you

Analysis

  • Market assessments
  • Demand forecasting
  • Economic analysis
  • Investment prioritization

Strategy

  • Corridor development
  • Transport policy
  • Infrastructure planning
  • Institutional reform

Delivery

  • Feasibility studies
  • P3 advisory
  • Transaction support
  • Implementation planning

Critical questions we’ll help you address:

Who we advise

Central Asia and the Caucasus matter more than ever

Everyone is talking about routes, corridors, and gateways. But what about the decisions behind them?

We care about the choices governments, investors, operators, lenders, and communities make before the first asset is built, reformed, financed, or connected.

That is where CPCS works.

We help clients make better infrastructure decisions — before momentum, money, or politics make poor decisions expensive.

We don’t just understand infrastructure. We understand how Central Asia and the Caucasus actually work.

Others see projects. We see ecosystems and integrate governance, institutions, regulation, commercial realities, and political priorities.

  • A railway in Kazakhstan affects ports in the Caspian.
  • A logistics bottleneck in Georgia affects cargo movement across the region.
  • A border process in one country can influence corridor performance across several others.
  • A public-private partnership is never just about financing.

The most important infrastructure decisions in Central Asia and the Caucasus are rarely national decisions. They are regional decisions, and they require a regional perspective.

What we help clients deliver

Helping you make decisions grounded in economics, operations, finance, and implementation reality.

Trade corridor and regional connectivity

Assess and improve the infrastructure, policies, institutions, and operating models that shape regional trade and connectivity.

Rail, road, ports, and logistics

Planning, market analysis, reform, operational improvement, investment strategy, and project preparation across transport and logistics systems.

Middle Corridor and Trans-Caspian development

Understand corridor performance, bottlenecks, investment priorities, and implementation pathways across complex regional transport networks.

Energy infrastructure and transition

Energy-sector planning, infrastructure investment, institutional reform, and strategies that support reliable, resilient, and sustainable systems.

PPP and infrastructure finance

Determine whether projects are suitable for PPP or other financing models, and support the structuring, analysis, and preparation needed to move viable projects forward.

Institutional reform

Supporting public agencies, infrastructure owners, and development partners to strengthen the institutions, governance models, and operating environments needed for infrastructure to perform.

Why work with CPCS

We have a regional presence in Almaty, Kazakhstan

Because we know and understand the stakeholders

  • Governments
  • International financial institutions
  • Development partners
  • Investors
  • Infrastructure owners
  • Operators

Because we understand connectivity and the intricate relationship between railways, ports, roads, logistics systems, border crossings, regulation, institutions, and finance.

Because we focus on strategy first, implementation second

  • Infrastructure creates value only when it works in practice
  • That is where we concentrate our effort

CPCS has extensive experience supporting governments, development partners, and investors across Central Asia and the Caucasus. Our experts understand the region’s evolving transport and logistics landscape and help clients develop infrastructure that strengthens connectivity, facilitates trade, and drives sustainable economic growth.

With deep expertise across rail, ports, roads, aviation, transit, and urban mobility, we provide integrated advisory services throughout the entire project lifecycle from strategy and planning to financing, implementation, and institutional reform.

Beyond infrastructure delivery, CPCS helps transform transport corridors into economic corridors, unlocking investment, regional integration, job creation, and long-term economic development.

Regional strengths

  • Regional presence in Almaty, Kazakhstan
  • Registered company in the Republic of Georgia
  • Recognized expertise in Middle Corridor connectivity
  • Experienced advisor to International Financial Institutions such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the World Bank.
  • Over 30 years of global infrastructure advisory experience

Our impact in Central Asia and the Caucasus

  • Identified more than EUR 20 billion in Middle Corridor investment opportunities for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

  • Delivered capacity-building and training for transport professionals in Georgia under the USAID Middle Corridor Transport Project.

  • Prioritized transport, energy, and digital connectivity investments for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

  • Developed an action plan to address non-physical barriers to trade and transport for the World Bank.

High impact careers in infrastructure consulting

Delivering Results Across Central Asia & the Caucasus

Sustainable transport connections between Europe & Central Asia

Supported the identification and prioritization of sustainable transport investments that informed the Brussels Investors Forum, contributing to a EUR 10 billion commitment for corridor development.

Nakhchivan Railway project feasibility assessment

Providing feasibility analysis, traffic forecasting, corridor planning, and PPP affordability assessment to support railway rehabilitation and regional connectivity.

Improving freight and logistics on the Trans-Caucasus Transit Corridor

Developed a strategic roadmap comprising 44 priority action across 16 strategic objectives to improve corridor performance and regional competitiveness.

  • Identified more than EUR 20 billion in Middle Corridor investment opportunities for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
  • Delivered capacity-building and training for transport professionals in Georgia under the USAID Middle Corridor Transport Project.
  • Prioritized transport, energy, and digital connectivity investments for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
  • Developed an action plan to address non-physical barriers to trade and transport for the World Bank.

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Central Asia and the Caucasus.