In January–November 2025, freight traffic volumes across the Kazakhstan Temir Zholy network reached 287.9 million tons, a 4% increase compared to the same period last year. Export traffic increased by 6.5% to 80.2 million tons, while domestic traffic increased by 2.5% to 161.4 million tons, confirming the company’s steady growth in transportation activities.
Coal remains KTZ’s key cargo: 95.7 million tons were transported over the 11 months, a 3.3% increase year-on-year. Coal exports increased by 8% to 31.2 million tons. Agricultural cargo also demonstrated significant growth. Grain shipments increased by 36% to 9.7 million tons, including 5.6 million tons (up 32%) shipped to Central Asian countries, while volumes to Iran doubled to 800,000 tons.
Significant growth was recorded in the highly processed products segment. Shipments of milled products and compound feed totaled 4.2 million tons, up 57% year-on-year. Feed shipments to China quadrupled to 2.9 million tons. Fertilizer shipments increased by 10.3% to 1.3 million tons. Due to the increase in shipment volumes, KTZ’s operational freight turnover for January–November 2025 reached 264.7 billion net tonne-kilometers, a 7.4% increase compared to last year.