Transportation in Kazakhstan
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CHINA, 2015/08/05
Kazakhstan Temir Zholy national railways company plans to transit 42,000 containers on the China-Europe-China route, and this figure is almost 40 times additional than in 2011.
This remark was made by company President Askar Mamin at a conference dedicated to the Transport Workers’ Day on August 3.
Mamin said that the additional volume of container transportation from China to Europe and vise-versa in 2014 allowed for an increase of revenues from transit traffic by 13.7 % compared to 2013, Kazakhstan’s Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund reported.
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KAZAKHSTAN, 2015/07/27
Kazakhstan is planning to open direct flights from Astana to six major business centers in the world by the end of 2019, according to a statement by Kazakh Investment and Development Minister Investment Issekeshev at a press conference on July 23.
Issekeshev said that this year, passengers will be given the opportunity to fly due from Kazakhstan's capital Astana to Dubai.
"Air service to Hong Kong will be opened next year and to Tokyo in 2017. Flights to Singapore will be conducted in 2018, while to New York and Shanghai by the end of 2019," the minister noted.
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KAZAKHSTAN, 2015/07/22
Kazakhstan plans to create aviation hubs in Astana and Almaty to increase the country’s transportation and logistics turnover by 2020.
Speaking at a briefing in Astana, the Minister for Investment and Development Assets Issekeshev recalled his proposals for the extension of the country's air transportation network.
Issekeshev said that the Civil Aviation Committee of the Ministry for Investment and Development seeks reformation on the country's aviation on the model of the UK Civil Aviation Authority.
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CHINA, 2014/12/19
Kazakhstan wants to make maximum use of its port of Lianyungang in China with container trains travelling between China and Europe.
A framework agreement, signed in Astana by the KTZ-Express JSC and the Lianyungang port, will be a basis for this.
The agreement was inked following a conference of the Kazakhstan-China Business Council to strengthen and improve international transportations via the new Eurasian continental transport corridor
Samruk-Kazyna, a wealth fund and joint stock company in Kazakhstan, said the agreement stipulates arranging travels of container trains on a regular basis on the China-Europe and China-Central Asia routes with the Lianyungang port’s direct participation, inclunding the creation of favorable conditions for transportations and boosting transit.
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KAZAKHSTAN, 2014/10/10
Kazakhstan will bring all airports into line with the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) by 2020.
The news was announced by Dauren Sabitov, Director of the Department of Transit and Transport Logistics of Kazakhstan's Investment and Development Ministry at a roundtable conference on the development of the transport sector, Trend Agency reported.
"We plan to bring all 18 airports of Kazakhstan into line with the ICAO standards by 2020," Sabitov noted.
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KAZAKHSTAN, 2013/05/13
The volume of freight traffic on Zhetygen-Korgas railroad will make 2 million tons in 2013, Tengrinews.kz reports citing President of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy Askar Mamin as saying at the conference in Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund.
"Zhetygen-Korgas railroad has been launched and the transit transportation is by presently in process. We plan that this year the traffic volume will make 2 million tons," Mamin said.
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KAZAKHSTAN, 2012/12/25
The national flag carrier of Kazakhstan, Air Astana, is opening a new air route connecting Kazakhstan and Ho Chi Minh City in December 2012.
Accordingly flights per week departing at Tan Son Nhat International Airport (HCMC), transiting in Bangkok (Thailand) and landing at Astana International Airport (Astana City, Kazakhstan) are expected. However, there is not from now on any official announcement about the fare for flights on this route.
