{"id":11963,"date":"2025-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/kazakhstan-railways-raised-595-million-for-the-development-of-the-trans-kazakhstan-corridor\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:00:00","slug":"kazakhstan-railways-raised-595-million-for-the-development-of-the-trans-kazakhstan-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/kazakhstan-railways-raised-595-million-for-the-development-of-the-trans-kazakhstan-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan Railways raised $595 million for the development of the Trans-Kazakhstan corridor."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Kazakhstan\u2019s KTZ railway company has signed a loan agreement with the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Deutsche Bank for up to 480 million Swiss francs (about $595.5 million). The funds will be used to finance key infrastructure projects along the Trans-Kazakhstan corridor. The deal was organized with the support of the sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna, which fully owns KTZ.<\/p>\n<p>The three-year financing will speed up the construction of new sections, including the Moiynty-Kyzylzhar line, and modernize congested routes in order to increase throughput. Part of the funds will be used to refinance the company\u2019s current debts.<\/p>\n<p>KTZ notes that the development of the Trans-Kazakhstan corridor is of strategic importance for strengthening Kazakhstan\u2019s role in the routes between China and Europe. Today, more than 80% of rail freight from China to Europe passes through the republic along the Trans-Caspian international transport route.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan\u2019s KTZ railway company has signed a loan agreement with the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Deutsche Bank for up to 480 million Swiss francs (about $595.5 million). The funds will be used to finance key infrastructure projects along the Trans-Kazakhstan corridor. The deal was organized with the support of the sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna, which fully owns KTZ.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}