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BISHKEK (TCA) — In the long term, the growth of container traffic along the China – Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) – EU route will be constrained by a range of non-tariff barriers, as well as the risk that Chinese provinces will discontinue export container traffic subsidies. One of the most critical infrastructure restrictions is the insufficient transport capacity of Polish railways, including crossing points at Belarus-Poland border, according to findings of the Eurasian Development Bank’s Centre for Integration Studies’ report titled Belt and Road Transport Corridors: Barriers and Investments. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Kanat Alpysbaev, the head of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), has held a series of meetings in Shanghai with representatives of logistic platforms in the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang (Yiwu), Hunan (Changsha), Jiangsu (Lianyungang), Shaanxi (Xian), Sichuan (Chengdu), Henan (Zhengzhou ) and Chongqing, as well as one of the largest global container operators — COSCO Shipping Lines, to discuss future cooperation on a number of projects, KTZ’s press office reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — As China is reviving the new rail Silk Road for the transportation of its goods to Europe, Kazakhstan is well-situated to become a key transit hub along this route. We are republishing this article on the issue, written by John C. K. Daly, originally published by the CACI Analyst: Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The first export containers have been transported by a feeder vessel from Kazakhstan’s Aktau seaport across the Caspian Sea to the port of Baku in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) said. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The first container train on the route Lodz (Poland) - Chandu (China) has passed through Kazakhstan’s Altynkol station at the border with China. The train of 41 forty-foot containers was processed in the Dry port of the SEZ Khorgos - Eastern Gate on the Kazakh-Chinese border, the press office of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) said. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The evolvement of China’s Silk Road Economic Belt initiative has boosted shipments from China to Europe and vice versa using the railway network of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member countries, primarily Kazakhstan and Russia, according to the report titled Silk Road Transport Corridors: An Estimate of Potential Increases in Freight Traffic through the EEU, prepared by the Centre for Integration Studies of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB). Continue reading
