September 10, 2018 in the city of Constanta (Romania), a roundtable "Port of Constanta – the new Gateway for the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route to Europe" was organized and held by the International Association "Trans-Caspian International Transport Route" and the Romanian National Company "Maritime Ports Administration" SA Constanta.

June 21-22, 2018, in Almaty (Kazakhstan), an special session of the working group of International Association "Trans-Caspian International Transport Route" was held.

On May 16-18, 2018, in Shanghai (China) the International Association "Trans-Caspian International Transport Route" took part in the 8th International Exhibition for Logistics, Mobility, IT and Supply Chain Management – Transport logistic China 2018.

On May 7-8, 2018, in Baku, Azerbaijan, regular sessions of the working group and General Meeting of the International Association "Trans-Caspian International Transport Route" were held shortly before the IAPH Baku 2018 World Ports Conference under the theme "Ports of future – building hubs, accelerating connectivity".

On April 5, 2018, the feeder vessel Mahmud Rehimov, residing to the «Azerbaijan Caspian Shipping» CJSC (ACS CJSC), moored to the Aktau seaport purposely for servicing a regular feeder container line of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (Middle Corridor). Later on the next day, 70 twenty-foot containers (TEU) with Kazakhstani wheat and lentil were stowed on the vessel.