Modern Trends in International Legal Regulation of Railway Transportation within the EAEU

Abstract

The article deals with the current trends in the formation of the array of international legal regulation of the transport and logistics industry, particularly in the field of railway transportation, within the EAEU at the current stage of development. In 2022–2023, tectonic changes in world politics, manifested in the erosion of international security, led to changes in the nature of international cooperation at the global level. The main trend was the regionalization of economic and political cooperation, aggravation of the struggle for multipolarity of the world, which led to the formation of new economic blocs that require the creation of new paradigms of convergence of their transport and logistics ecosystems for fruitful trade and economic cooperation. Intensification of interaction both within the EAEU and the EAEU with other states entails the development of international legislation at the level of regional blocs, creating the basis for effective integration and cooperation processes.Aim. The purpose of the article is to study the current trends of the new paradigm of transport and logistics cooperation in the context of the current geopolitical agenda and the development of Industry 4.0 technologies to identify new vectors of interstate cooperation in the industry.Tasks. It is proposed to consider trends in the development of international legal regulation of EAEU cooperation in the field of convergence of transport and logistics ecosystems, both within the Union, as well as in the format of interaction with countries — strategic partners, such as Iran, China and others to create efficient chains of rail transportation in the Eurasian region.Methods. When conducting the research the author used comparative-legal, formal-legal methods, as well as deduction, system method and abstraction.Results. The idea of the necessity of further expansion of integration processes of transport and logistics ecosystems of EAEU of such partner states as Iran, China and India is substantiated.Conclusions. The complex geopolitical situation in 2022–2023 has given rise to a trend towards national-oriented development of the economies of individual states. Globalization trends in logistics have been replaced by the understanding of the priority of developing regional cooperation of developing countries in order to form a multipolar world. The formation of an array of international legal regulation of transport and logistics industry within the EAEU is aimed at ensuring its effectiveness, based on the idea of adding a block of leaders of the new world — developing countries of the Eurasian region, ensuring their economic sovereignty through the development of new logistics routes, including the possibility of using technologies and services of the new technological mode and providing digital connectivity of subjects of the transport sector.

Keywords

• eaeu
• transport and logistics ecosystem
• convergence of transport systems
• eurasian transport system
• international transport law