Six years ago, the government of Uzbekistan to turn the Navoi airport into a major regional logistics hub, connecting Europe and Asia, has attracted the airline Korean Air. Annually Navoi cargo terminal can handle 100 thousand tons of cargo, but while he was engaged on a third.
Young Uzbek city of Navoi, named after a Central Asian Turkic poet and philosopher of the middle ages Alisher Navoi, appeared in 1958 in the valley of the Zeravshan river (in ancient times, was a tributary of Amu Darya) as the basis for the development of the industry for the extraction of rare earth elements, precious metals and uranium in Uzbekistan.
The main town Navoi region, located in the Central part of the country, and today remains the leading industrial city of the Republic — for example, here continues Navoi GMK, one of the world’s leading producers of gold and uranium.
Air transport has appeared in Navoi in 1962, when the 10 km West of the city the airport was built and two decades later — the terminal.
FIEZ
At the end of 2008 and 3 km from the airport of Navoi on the basis of the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov has been created for 30 years free industrial and economic zone in Navoi region (FIEZ “Navoi”).