JSC NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy signed a mandate agreement to attract $1.6 billion in financing over a 10-year period for the renewal of its locomotive fleet. The document was signed during the official visit of the President of Kazakhstan to the United States between KTZ and Citibank, which is coordinating the transaction. The U.S. Export-Import Bank (US EXIM) is serving as the project guarantee.
Chinese engineers have begun developing an innovative container ship with a capacity of up to 14,000 TEU, equipped with an advanced propulsion system based on a 200 MW TMSR molten salt thorium reactor. This power level is comparable to the S6W reactors used on the US Navy’s Seawolf-class nuclear submarines.
During the official visit of the President of Kazakhstan to the United States and his participation in the C5+1 Summit, JSC NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy and the American corporation Wabtec signed a cooperation agreement on the training and professional development of railway personnel.
The Altynkol border station continues to play a key role in the development of transport links between Kazakhstan and China, serving as one of the central logistics hubs in Central Asia. Three major terminals operate here—the Dry Port of KTZE-Khorgos Gateway LLC, Eurotransit LLC, and Kedentransservice JSC—ensuring stable freight traffic along the Silk Road routes. Dozens of trains pass through Altynkol daily, and the container train transhipment time is only 55 minutes, made possible by highly automated and modern equipment.
The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), together with the Kazakhstan Center for Public-Private Partnership and the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, has launched a project to develop and strengthen the institutional environment for PPPs in Kazakhstan. The initiative is being implemented with financial support from the EDB Technical Assistance Fund (EADB TAF), and the parties signed a corresponding agreement at the IV International Conference on PPPs in Kyrgyzstan.
A meeting of the Presidium of the Union of Transport Workers of Kazakhstan, KAZLOGISTICS, was held in Astana. The meeting summarized the Union’s activities for 2025 and identified priority areas for 2026. Kanat Almagambetov, General Director of the Union, presented the results of program initiatives and outlined key objectives for the development of the country’s transport and logistics sector.
A new multimodal rail + road transport route has officially opened between Beijing and Almaty. The first container train carrying furniture, auto parts, and other goods departed the Fangshan International Dry Port for Tacheng (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), from where some of the cargo will be transported by road to Kazakhstan via the Bakhty border crossing.
At the 28th Kazakhstan International Transport and Logistics Exhibition – TransLogistica Kazakhstan 2025, the international transport and logistics group AsstrA and JSC KazAzot signed a memorandum of cooperation. The document formalizes the agreement on cooperation in the field of logistics support for the strategic project to construct and modernize KazAzot’s ammonia-urea complex.
The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) announced that over $52 billion will be invested in the development of Central Asian transport corridors by 2035. According to Evgeny Vinokurov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Economist of the EDB, a significant portion of the investment is being directed toward developing routes along the North-South axis, including the International North-South Transport Corridor and the Trans-Afghan Corridor, which open up new trade opportunities with the Persian Gulf countries and South Asia.
Vice Minister Zhanibek Taizhanov met with German Ambassador Monika Iversen and Stefan Meier, Member of the Bundestag and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, at the Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan. The parties discussed expanding bilateral cooperation in transport and logistics, as well as the participation of German companies in Kazakhstan’s infrastructure projects.
