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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin and Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov, on July 17 in Kazakhstan’s Mangystau region, attended the opening ceremony of the international highway Beineu–Akzhigit–the border of Uzbekistan. Mamin congratulated on the opening of traffic on this international motor road and stressed the importance of the event for the development of the transport infrastructure of Central Asia, increasing trade volumes, and taking advantage of the region’s transit potential, the press service of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported. The opening of this road is a symbol of the intensive development of strategic partnership between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Mamin said, adding that “it is deeply symbolic that this project started in the Year of Kazakhstan in Uzbekistan”. According to the head of Kazakh Government, in recent years, relations between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have reached a qualitatively new level and have acquired a steady positive trend. This is confirmed by the annual growth in bilateral trade, which amounted to $3 billion last year. Since the beginning of this year, there has been a positive growth trend. Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov spoke about the strategic importance of the event for the two neighboring fraternal countries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. “The successful implementation of this project will give a new impetus to the Silk Road trade flows and the development of our entire region,” said Aripov, adding that “this highway is, first of all, of great importance for the further activation of trade and economic relations between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.”
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Iran will provide land in the ports of Bandar Abbas and Amirabad for Kazakhstan to build logistics centers for exporting goods through Iran to the Persian Gulf markets. Agreements on the issue were reached after the meetings of Kazakhstan’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tileuberdi with Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami and Deputy Minister of Agriculture Jahad Yazdan Seif in Tehran last week, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry reported. Continue reading
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — A meeting of representatives of the railway administrations of Kazakhstan, China, Iran, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan on the further development of cargo transportation along the common international transport corridor was held in Almaty last week, the press service of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) national railways company reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The potential use of the Ob’-Irtysh river, which originates in Kazakhstan and runs through Russia, may give Kazakhstan the possibility of gaining maritime access to the Arctic Ocean with further transport links to Europe and the world. We are republishing this article on the issue, written by Tristan Kenderdine: Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — More than 1.2 million people visited the Khorgos International Center of Boundary Cooperation (ICBC) in 2018, an 8-percent increase compared to 2017, the press service of national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy said. The Khorgos ICBC is located on the Kazakh-Chinese border in Kazakhstan’s Almaty province, and is a major international transport, transit and trading hub between Kazakhstan and China. The growth of visits was facilitated by measures to create conditions for conducting transparent business of investors and visiting tourists. Thus, the luggage terminal was reconstructed and enlarged from 900 to 3,500 square meters. The fleet of 15 low-tonnage cargo vehicles has been updated. This allowed reducing the time of delivery of visitors' goods from the baggage collection points to the point of delivery in the baggage terminal. There is a single operator for comfortable movement of visitors. Currently, the issues of exemption of Kazakhstan and foreign participants of FEZ ICBC Khorgos from payment of basic taxes, except the social tax, are being resolved. The assignment to ICBC Khorgos — a unique project of Kazakhstan and China for trade, economic, tourism and investment cooperation — of the status of Free Economic Zone (FEZ) created favorable conditions for the development of business and investment in the territory of Kazakhstan. In 2018, 12 investment companies were attracted with a total construction area of 32.7 hectares and a building area of 193,000 square meters. Over the years of operation of ICBC Khorgos, 21 contracts for the construction of investment facilities were signed. The area of land plots at Khorgos was 113.5 hectares with the exception of infrastructure facilities, and the area of premises was 805.4 thousand square meters.
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani said at the India-Central Asia Dialogue in Uzbekistan on January 13 that Afghanistan can provide the most cost-effective transit routes as he highlighted the country's importance for connecting the region, Afghan broadcaster TOLOnews reported. Continue reading
