Eni will be expected to deliver on Russian Southern Corridor ambitions if it wants to retain upstream Russian stakes.

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Russia has won the Southern Corridor battle, but in doing so, stands even greater chance of losing the larger gas market war.

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So as advanced Southern Corridor schemes might appear on paper, the real space to watch is when and how Azerbaijan decides to play their aces.

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Russia always had first mover advantage in the Southern Corridor purely by virtue of being able to redirect initial supplies from Ukraine towards South Stream markets.

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This has influenced key flagship projects including Lamu Port and the Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor.

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North Carolina received money to start improving existing track and an agreement was signed with rail freight company Norfolk Southern Railways to start exploring a major high-speed rail corridor between Charlotte and Raleigh.

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One can get a sense of how important this air corridor is from the fact that Kandahar Air Field near the Pakistan border in southern Afghanistan is reported to have the busiest runway in the world with some 700 flights landing or taking off there every day.

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