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BISHKEK (TCA) — Today, east-west rail links are considered at least as important as maritime power. And though at varying speed according to working area, spades are being put into the ground as construction work proceeds, thereby increasing investors’ trust that something is actually being done with their money except paperwork. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A ceremony of laying a capsule for the construction of a Turkmen five-star hotel was planned for September 3 in Kara-Oi village of the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan. Presidents Almazbek Atambayev of Kyrgyzstan and Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov of Turkmenistan were supposed to attend the ceremony but it was cancelled as Berdymukhammedov was at the funeral of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov in Samarkand and did not arrive in Kyrgyzstan. The Turkmen leader planned to attend the opening ceremony of the World Nomad Games which took place at Issyk-Kul between September 3 and 8. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — At the meeting of the Kazakhstan-China Border Railroads Commission held in Astana last week, the head of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), Askar Mamin, and the Chief of Urumchi Railway Shan’ Liczyun expressed the readiness to increase the container shipment volumes along the China-Europe-China route through Kazakhstan, and agreed on the volume of cargo transportation through the Kazakh-Chinese railway border in 2017 to reach 11.5 million tons, the press service of KTZ said. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $240.3 million loan to help Kazakhstan modernize its transport system. Improved transport connectivity will help increase trade links between Kazakhstan and the markets in East Asia, the Caspian Sea region, and further to Europe, ADB’s Country Office in Kazakhstan said on August 29. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon, in a ceremony in the Yovon district on August 24, put into operation the Vahdat-Yovon section of Dushanbe-Qurghonteppa-Kulob railroad, the presidential press service reported. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan is completing a project aimed at launching a new high speed rail route between the capital, Tashkent, and ancient Silk-Road city of Bukhara, the Jahon information agency reports. Continue reading
