The Zangezur Corridor is a developing, strategic transport route designed to connect mainland Azerbaijan to Turkey via the Nakhchivan exclave, crossing Armenia’s Syunik province. Also part of the Middle Corridor and declared as the “International Trump Route for Peace and Prosperity” (TRIPP). Serving as a parallel route to the established Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway, it will create a continuous overland link to drastically improve East-West trade flows. In August 2025, the United States hosted the signing ceremony for a strategic transit corridor agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House. The event was attended by US president Donald Trump, Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev. The deal includes an agreement that the countries will cooperate on a new transit corridor linking Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan in Armenia. The route (Armenia part only) will be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) and the development rights are guaranteed to the United States for 49 years. Under the agreement and through the TRIPP Development Company (TDC) the US subleases the land to a consortium that will develop rail, oil, gas, and digital and electricity lines, along the 43-kilometre (27 mi) corridor. The US will hold a 74% stake in the venture company, with Armenia possessing the remaining share.
Corridor trend or concept line