Afghanistan has started upgrading the Turgundi dry port on the border with Turkmenistan. That country is likely providing major financial support for the project. The…
Kazakh Railways, Kazakhstan’s national rail operator, and Wabtec, an American tech company, have signed a major locomotive deal valued at 4,2 billion US dollars. The…
Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) launched a new intermodal connection to Türkiye. The route connects Medeu, in the Almaty region, with Köseköy, southeast of Istanbul, through rail-sea-rail…
What takes precedence: price, politics or persistent supply chains? The skeptical observant might say that price always rules. Yet, despite hardening competition from cheaper alternatives,…
Rail container traffic between China and Europe dropped by 22% year-on-year in H1 2025. Despite such a significant downturn, the Middle Corridor still sees spectacular…
Kazakh Railways (KTZ) has proposed a redesign of its tariff policies. It hopes to abolish tariff differentiation by freight type, aligning all tariffs with the…
Kazakhstan’s Khorgos special economic zone, a rail gateway into China, could be getting a new multimodal airport. The Kazakh-German Skyhansa consortium signed a framework agreement…
The Kazakh rail freight industry, represented by association ARFC, wants a maximum annual rail tariff increase of 15%. Such a measure should improve transparency and…
A massive Kazakh-Chinese investment of 24 billion dollars is coming. It includes various projects, such as a logistics park in Astana, a border trade centre…