On March 8th, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan Beibut Atamkulov and the Minister of Transport of Uzbekistan Ilhom Makhkamov met in Tashkent to discuss the expansion of transit, transport and logistics links between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
The implementation of a collaborative project to improve the road and rail infrastructure between the two countries is essential for the realization of a plan to increase bilateral trade to $10 billion per annum.
Kazakh-Uzbek rail and road freight is growing. In 2023, the volume of rail freight alone, between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, increased by 17.2% to 31.4 million tons, compared to 26.8 million tons in 2022.
The resumption of air services between the Kazakh cities of Almaty and Aktobe and Uzbekistan’s Nukus, as well as new connections between the countries’ tourist centres including Turkestan-Samarkand, Turkestan-Bukhara, and Turkestan-Urgench, was also discussed.
The current number of weekly flights between cities in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is 25; between Astana and Tashkent, 8, and between Almaty and Tashkent, 17.
