A container train recently completed the 4,486-kilometer journey from China to Uzbekistan via Kazakhstan in a record-breaking five days, Kazinform reports. Departing from the Kazakh-Chinese terminal in Xi’an, China, the train traversed the Kazakhstan Railways network to the Saryagash border station before reaching its final destination, Tashkent, a major Central Asian transportation hub. The expedited […]
New Trade Route Opens: Kazakhstan to UAE via Afghanistan and Pakistan
A landmark pilot project has successfully completed a new multimodal transportation route from Kazakhstan to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). KTZ Express JSC, QazTrade JSC, and their Pakistani partner, National Logistics Corporation (NLC), collaborated to deliver cargo from Kazakhstan to Jebel Ali port in the UAE via Afghanistan and Pakistan. This route offers a fresh […]
Kazakhstan aims to build up its transit capacity between China and Central Asia
Kazakhstan aims to construct a large commercial and logistics hub on the bypass railway around Almaty, which will be built to boost the transit flows from China to Central Asia, The transit goods to/from neighboring China have been delivered to Kazakhstan through the Altynkol – Khorgos border crossing, where there is an intensive growth in […]
Kazakhstan Railway cargo turnover in 2022 was 252 billion ton-kilometers
The operational cargo turnover of Kazakhstan Railway was 252 billion ton-kilometers in 2022. This is 5.3% higher than the previous year. Karel Novak, in an article for the publication Rail Market writes, “This is the highest indicator for the years of independence of Kazakhstan. Also, the historical maximum volume of traffic between Kazakhstan and China […]