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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
KABUL (TCA) — The Afghan Ministry of Finance says Uzbekistan has pledged to fund the Herat — Mazar-e-Sharif railway project in Afghanistan, Afghan news agency TOLOnews reports. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — United Transport and Logistics Company (UTLC), a Eurasian rail alliance of Russian Railways, the National Union Belarusian Railway and national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Austrian company Rail Cargo Austria AG. The parties intend to develop relations in the field of organization of cargo rail transportation in containers on the route China – Europe – China on the railroads of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus. Continue reading
KABUL (TCA) — Iranian embassy officials in Kabul say that the development of a railway system in Afghanistan will help boost the country’s trade with Iran and other Central Asian countries, and that in order to boost trade through its Chabahar port, Iran is working to connect Chabahar’s railway line to the railway network in Afghanistan, TOLOnews reports. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — A delegation of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), led by Vice President for Logistics Sanzhar Elyubaev, last week participated in the meeting of the Organisation for Co-operation between Railways’ (OSJD) Commission on Cargo Transportation in Warsaw, Poland. The meeting summed up the results of work for 2017 and agreed on the volumes of transportation of export, import and transit cargos by railway transport for 2018, KTZ’s press-office reported. Continue reading
