BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov.21
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Kazakhstan and China agreed to take joint measures to increase cargo turnover between the two countries in 2020 as compared to 2019, Trend reports with reference to the press office of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy company (Kazakhstan Railways).
The agreement was reached in Beijing on November 19, 2019, within the framework of the 13th meeting of Kazakh-Chinese Subcommittee on Cooperation in Railway Transport. Within the framework of the meeting, First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy Kanat Almagambetov met with Vice General Manager and Member of the Party Leadership Group of China State Railway Group Co. Ltd. Li Wenxin.
Parties talked issues of bilateral cooperation. In particular, the results of activities of railways border stations during 10 months of 2019 and preliminary work plan for 2020 were reviewed.
Thus, volume of cargo turnover between countries via railway border stations amounted to 14,1 million tons in ten months of this year, which is 2.6 million tons or 23 percent more compared to the same period of last year.
Furthermore, during the meeting parties also talked possibility of transporting up to one million tons of coal and other cargo via China's Lianyungang port.
As reported earlier this year, following the end of 2019, 16 million tons of cargo will be transported via railways between Kazakhstan and China, instead of the planned 15 million tons.
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