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ASTANA (TCA) — On July 18, a train loaded with flour was sent from Kazakhstan’s Kostanay station on the route through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, the press office of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) said. Continue reading
TEHRAN (TCA) — A freight train from China arrived in the Iranian city of Bandar Anzali on the Caspian Sea on June 26, marking a new trade link and giving a fresh boost to the Silk Road revival, Iran’s PressTV news agency reported. Continue reading
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
