The new Silk road services transiting through Kazakhstan are about to experience a substantial price increase. KTZ – Freight Transportation, the country’s national freight carrier, will raise the costs for cargo transport and empty wagons...Read more
Kazakhstan has announced a freeze on truck traffic at the border with China, in order to free up capacity for China-Europe trains. The ban started on Monday 1 March and will remain in place for...Read more
The traffic volumes transported through Kazakhstan in the first half of 2018 has more than doubled on a year-to-year basis, the national railway company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) announced. During the first six months 1861...Read more
The handling of freight trains at the Chinese-Kazakh border crossing of Khorgos-Altynkol has been reduced in time due to a technical advancement. The processing of documents can now be done thirty times faster, said Kazakh...Read more
The logistics arm of electrical giant GE has signed a deal with Kazakhstan Railways to equip its fleet of freight locomotives with an ‘intelligent’ onboard control system.
GE Transportation’s Trip Optimizer (TO) works in a similar...Read more
