Kazakhstan eyes 3-fold increase in transit through expansion of terminal network
New Kazakhstani terminals are set to open in Romania, Hungary and China in the future, Nurzhan Kelbuganov, deputy chairman of the Railway and Water Transport Committee of Kazakhstan’s Transport Ministry, said at a briefing, Kazinform News Agency reports.
Joint terminals are slated for construction in Romania’s Constanța, Hungary’s Budapest and China’s Ürümqi in the future. The projects are aimed at expanding export routes and adding more cargo flows to the country’s transport infrastructure, said Kelbuganov.
This will boost Kazakhstan’s external terminal facilities by four-fold to up to 2.5 million containers a year and transit volumes by three-fold to 76 million tons.
According to the speaker, Kazakhstan and China’s terminals have already been operational at Chinese ports of Lianyungang and Xi’an as well as a terminal at Georgia’s Poti Sea Port, built by a private investor from Kazakhstan.
Construction of joint terminals is underway at Azerbaijan’s Alat Port, Russia’s Selyatino railway station, Belarus’s Svisloch railway station and in Uzbekistan’s Tashkent, adding over 1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of new container handling capacity per year.
As earlier reported, Kazakhstan is to complete construction of a terminal at Georgia’s Poti Sea Port this year.
