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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
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
BISHKEK (TCA) — As China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is poised to bring in huge economic opportunities for the Eurasian continent and Central Asia countries, we are presenting this article which was originally published on Asia Pathways, the blog of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI): Continue reading
KABUL (TCA) — The parliament of Kazakhstan has approved an agreement that allows the United States to use two of the Central Asian country’s Caspian Sea ports as transit points for shipping nonmilitary material to Afghanistan, the Afghan news agency TOLOnews reported. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — The route Tashkent-Andijan-Osh-Irkeshtam-Kashgar is the shortest motor transport corridor from Uzbekistan via Kyrgyzstan to China. The road runs through Sary-Tash and Irkeshtam pass in Kyrgyzstan at an altitude of more than 3,500 meters above sea level, the Jahon information agency 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
