Our highway is your Silk Way.
Türkmen Awtoban built and operates the 600-kilometre Ashgabat–Türkmenabat motorway — six lanes carrying the modern Silk Road, end to end.
A road measured at continental scale.
Three sections. One uninterrupted line from the capital to the river.
Built in phases between 2019 and 2026, the motorway crosses the Karakum, threads the Murgap and Tejen oases, and meets the Amu Darya at Türkmenabat.
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Cash · TMT only · No transponder · At every booth
Built section by section, opened to traffic in three acts.
- 01 October 2021203 km
Ashgabat — Tejen
Phase I · Ashgabat exit to Tejen interchange
PHASE 01 - 02 April 2024109 km
Tejen — Mary
Phase II · across the Murgap delta
PHASE 02 - 03 April 2026288 km
Mary — Türkmenabat
Phase III · the long crossing to the Amu Darya
PHASE 03
An ITS-grade corridor, built to the highest world standard.
- 01
Signal-free design
Every junction along the 600 km is grade-separated, so the carriageway flows without a single traffic light from Ashgabat to Türkmenabat.
- 02
Intelligent Transport System
Continuous video surveillance, variable-message signs and meteorological stations feed a national traffic-management centre operating 24/7.
- 03
LTE the full length
Altyn Asyr delivers LTE mobile coverage along every kilometre of the motorway — for emergency calls, fleet telematics and the in-car experience.
- 04
Wildlife crossings
Dedicated overpasses and culverts preserve migration corridors across the Karakum, designed alongside Turkmenistan's environmental authorities.
- 05
Service network
Rest areas, fuel stations, traffic-police posts, cafés and shops are spaced along the corridor — every long crossing has a place to stop.
- 06
Audited by Vienna
VCE Vienna Consulting Engineers and FCP — Austria's senior infrastructure consultancies — were contracted as independent Quality Control Engineer.
Turkmenistan's first major public–private partnership.
Türkmen Awtoban CJSC was incorporated in April 2018 as a consortium drawn from the most active members of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan — formed expressly to design, construct and operate the Ashgabat–Türkmenabat motorway.
It is the country's first major private consortium working under a public–private partnership framework, and the first Turkmen company to manage a national-scale toll motorway end to end.
- Founded
- April 2018
- Form
- Closed Joint-Stock Company
- Headquarters
- Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
- Specialty
- EPC · Toll motorway operation
From the corridor.
- 10 April 2026
Final 288 km opens — the Ashgabat–Türkmenabat motorway is complete.
- 18 April 2024
Phase II opens: 109 km from Tejen to Mary.
- 29 October 2021
Phase I opens: Ashgabat to Tejen, 203 km.
Designed and audited alongside European senior consultancies.
- 01 VCE Vienna Consulting Engineers Quality Control Engineer · Austria
- 02 FCP — Fritsch, Chiari & Partner Independent design audit · Austria
- 03 Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan Consortium founders
- 04 Altyn Asyr LTE coverage along the corridor