Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan And China Launch New Railway Route
Date
8/17/2024 1:04:03 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, August 17. Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan and China have launched cargo transportation along a new
route in accordance with agreements on the organization of freight
transportation along the China-Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan route and the
development of the Trans-Afghan direction, Trend reports, citing
Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ).
Thus, the cargo train was sent from the Kazakh-Chinese terminal
in the port of Xi'an. The containers were reloaded at the KTZE
Khorgos Gateway dry port and continued to follow the KTZ Network to
the Saryagash border station, then to the final point - Tashkent
station.
As a result, the container train went the whole nine yards,
covering a whopping 4,486 kilometers in a jaw-dropping record time
of just 5 days.
"A short period of cargo transportation is ensured thanks to the
use of KTZ terminal capabilities in China, as well as consistent
interaction between the railway administrations of Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan to expand the border infrastructure of the two
countries," KTZ said.
As KTZ noted, due to the reconstruction and improvement of
technological processes, the capacity of the Saryagash interstate
junction station, through which the main cargo flow between
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan passes, has been increased by 50
percent.
Meanwhile, the volume of cargo transported by rail in Kazakhstan
amounted to 197.6 million tons from January through June 2024.
Compared to the same period in 2023, this represents a decrease of
2.3 percent.
At the same time, cargo turnover by rail for the above period
amounted to 153.7 billion ton-kilometers, which is 5.7 percent less
than from January through June 2023.
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