Kazakhstan keeps putting more grain on the rail to China
The use of railways to transport Kazakh grain exported to China has increased four times between September 2022 and June 2023, compared to the same…
Traffic via Alashankou restricted and diverted via Khorgos
Rail freight traffic between China and Kazakhstan will be redirected through the Altynkol-Khorgos border crossing. Most of the affected traffic will concern cargo between China…
UPDATE
All good on the Altynkol front, says KTZ
The disturbance caused to Silk Road traffic a few days ago because of an alleged malfunction of three cranes in Altynkol seems to have been…
Broken cranes in the Altynkol terminal create Silk Road mayhem
Early in the morning of Tuesday, 11 October, two of the three cranes operating in the Altynkol terminal on the Kazakh-Chinese border broke down, making…
Khorgos terminal doubles capacity, a solution to congested borders?
The Khorgos Gateway dry port in Kazakhstan commissioned a new set of 1435mm rail tracks in its facilities. With the new tracks, the busy terminal…