A seminar was held as part of the 19th Exhibition of Chinese Goods in Astana, bringing together interregional business associations of China and Kazakhstan. Representatives of key industries, including agriculture, logistics, chemistry, light industry, tourism and mining, took part in the discussions.
The resumption of rail transport across the Baltic Sea by ferry has been made possible by recent infrastructure investments. In early August, a batch of rail cars from the Swedish port of Ystad arrived at the ferry terminal in Świnoujście. The container platforms were transported on the ferry Polonia and then headed to southern Poland for repairs. This is the second such transport in recent months, and another is expected in August.
In the first half of 2024, Stadler increased its order book by €2.5 billion to a record level of CHF 26.8 billion. However, other financial indicators were lower than in the same period last year.
PTC Cargo together with PTC Freight Agency (PRC) and Poti Transterminal (Georgia) successfully completed the first multimodal transportation on the new route Jinan (China) – Poti/Tbilisi (Georgia). This project, carried out on a door-to-door basis, included the transportation of 56 containers, of which 2 were 20-foot and 54 were 40-foot.
During the year of operation of the Black Sea corridor, the port of Yuzhny in Ukraine handled 27.6 million tons of cargo, which is almost three times more than under the Grain Initiative. From September 2023 to August 2024, the port handled 11.7 million tons of agricultural cargo and 15.9 million tons of ore and metal products.
The Georgian Roads Department has announced an international tender for the construction of new roads that will connect Georgia with Armenia and Azerbaijan. The project will be financed by a €250 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB).
Container traffic at the Port of Hamburg remained stable in the first half of 2024, handling 3.8 million TEU, almost the same as last year. Despite economic challenges and tensions in the Red Sea region, container handling and overall port throughput demonstrated resilience.
In Almaty, a meeting was held between the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Arzybek Kozhoshev and entrepreneurs from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as representatives of government agencies and companies. The main focus was on transport and logistics issues related to the free movement of goods within the Eurasian Economic Union.
The volume of cargo and baggage transportation by sea and coastal transport in Kazakhstan for January-July 2024 reached 1.6 million tons, which is more than twice as much as the same period last year.
The DIGITPORTS project, implemented within the Interreg Italy-Croatia 2021-2027 program, aims to digitally transform the ports of the Adriatic Sea. The main objective of the project is to implement digital twin technology to improve safety and environmental friendliness of operations in the ports of the region.
