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According to ARFC, in January-July 2025, the Transport and Warehousing sector in Kazakhstan recorded a 22.5% increase in the physical volume of services compared to last year. The volume of transportation by all modes of transport amounted to 649.6 million tons (+10.1%), freight turnover reached 324.5 billion ton-km (+12.1%). Passenger traffic increased to 1.08 billion people (+10.7%), passenger turnover — to 51.5 billion p-km (+10.7%).

On August 1, 2025, in Beijing, a KTZ Express delegation headed by General Director D. M. Kozhakhmetov held a working meeting with the management of China Railway Container Transport Co., Ltd. (CRCT). The meeting was attended by General Director Zhong Cheng, Deputy General Directors Wang Dezhan and Zhang Dongliang, as well as customer service and special projects specialists from CRCT.

The Grimaldi Group has taken delivery of the Grande Tianjin, the first of seven clean car carriers (PCTC) ordered from Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding. The 9,241-vehicle (ceu) vessel, equipped with ammonia and shore power, will be launched on the East Asia – Northern Europe route in mid-August, carrying an initial consignment of 1,000 electric SUVs.

JSC NC Kazakhstan Temir Zholy and its subsidiary KTZ Express demonstrate steady growth in transit traffic, turning Kazakhstan into one of the central hubs of Eurasian logistics. In 2023, the transit volume reached 27.5 million tons — 33% more than in 2020, and container transit increased to 1.4 million TEU. According to KTZ forecasts, by 2029 this figure could reach 100 million tons, and transit revenues — more than $6 billion. The key driver will be the completion of the Dostyk-Moiynty project, which will double the volume to 55 million tons in 2026. As part of the railway network modernization program, it is planned to build and upgrade 5 thousand km of highways and repair another 11 thousand km of tracks by 2029. 

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held talks with the head of the Turkish company S Sistem Lojistik Hussein Barlin, during which they discussed the prospects for a strategic partnership in the field of logistics. Kazakhstan is actively developing the Middle Corridor, striving for the status of a key transit hub of Eurasia.

Kazakhstan’s Transport Minister Nurlan Sauranbayev said that the use of the country’s advantageous geographical location could bring the budget up to 5 trillion tenge annually. He announced this at a press conference in the government, emphasizing that investments in infrastructure, including the expansion of the Dostyk-Moiynty section, would have a powerful economic effect.

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%.