Kazakhstan’s 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.
Ocean Network Express (ONE) has reported its financial results for the first quarter of its 2025 financial year (April-June). For the period, revenue was $4.049 billion, and net income was $86 million.
In January–June 2025, 550.8 million tons of cargo were transported in Kazakhstan by all modes of transport, which is 53.6 million tons or 10.8% more than in the same period last year.
The world’s largest container port of Shanghai handled over 4.7 million TEU in June 2025, the third-highest volume in the port’s history. Although growth was only 1.1% compared to June last year, analysts attribute the slowdown to the early start of the high season, while in May the growth rate reached 10%.
The President of Kazakhstan met with the Chairman of the Board of JSC NC KTZ Talgat Aldybergenov to discuss the company’s performance in the first half of 2025. According to Aldybergenov, operational freight turnover increased by 8.6%, and transit traffic reached 14.6 million tons, indicating the growing importance of KTZ in the country’s transport sector.
JSC NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy signed a cooperation agreement with the Turkish railway operator TCDD Taşımacılık A.Ş. during the official visit of the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to Turkey. The document is aimed at expanding freight traffic along the Middle Corridor route and provides for the creation of regular rail service between the two countries.
The railway industry of Kazakhstan demonstrates steady growth: today there are 154 passenger routes in the country, 112 of which are served by JSC Passenger Transportation. The remaining routes are distributed between private operators (30 routes) and international routes (12 routes). In the first six months of 2025, 9.5 million passengers were transported by rail. As part of the rolling stock renewal since the beginning of the year, the fleet has been replenished with 60 new cars.
On June 24, 2025, the first China-Europe Railway Express freight train from Shenzhen Pinghu South to Budapest, organized for cross-border e-commerce, was ceremoniously welcomed at the Mahart Container Center (MCC) terminal in Budapest. Its arrival was a landmark event for the development of a stable and efficient logistics corridor between China and Europe. The ceremony was attended by representatives of CRCT Europe Logistics, Sinotrans South China and Neptune Logistics Group, as well as leading logistics companies in Hungary.
On July 28, 2025, on the air of the Magistral-Live program, Managing Director for New Projects and Marketing of KTZ Express JSC Aidana Mukhamedieva spoke about the development of the international container hub in Aktau, a key element of the Middle Corridor. The new hub is already changing the face of the Trans-Caspian route and strengthening Kazakhstan’s role in multimodal logistics.
Over the past two months, 10 large container ships have passed through the Suez Canal, indicating a revival of traffic amid the 15% discount on transit fees for vessels with a displacement of 130,000 tonnes or more introduced by the Suez Canal. These measures, introduced in May for three months, are aimed at returning cargo flows that had previously gone via alternative routes. Among those that passed were six CMA CGM vessels and four MSC vessels.
