Baku, Azerbaijan, Mar. 10
By Elena Kosolapova – Trend:
Kazakhstan intends to increase the container transportation from China to Turkey through Azerbaijan to 300,000 containers by 2020, the Ministry of Investment and Development of Kazakhstan reported.
The transportation will be increased due to the commissioning of the Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway line and the Kazakh port of Kuryk in the Caspian Sea, the report said.
It is planned to complete construction of the ferry complex in the Kuryk port in 2017. The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway is expected to be commissioned in the second half of 2017.
In general, Kazakhstan plans to increase the volume of container transportation to two million containers by 2020, according to the report.
In addition to container transportation in the direction of China-Caucasus-Turkey, it is planned to increase the transportation in the direction of China-EU-China to 800,000 containers and in the direction of China-Turkmenistan-Iran to 680,000 containers, as well as to 220,000 containers in other directions. To date, in general, about 100 container trains pass through Kazakhstan in 11 directions.
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