6000 km of railway tracks to be modernized in Kazakhstan by 2020
15:00, 29 October 2014
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Kazakhstan's Ministry for Investment and Development expects to modernize 6 thousand kilometers of railway lines and reduce the wear of rails by 40%, this has been announced during a briefing at the Central Communications Service by First Deputy Minister for Investment and Development Zhenis Kasymbek.
"By 2020 we plan to modernize 6 thousand kilometers of railway lines. Though we have completed the task partially as in August we commissioned the railway lines "Zhezkazgan-Beineu" and "Arkalyk-Shubarkol' with the total length of 1,250 kilometers," said Kasymbek. According to his words, this will create about 3.8 thousand new jobs.