{"id":17451,"date":"2026-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/kazakhstans-transport-sector-increased-its-traffic-volume-by-11-9-in-early-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T00:00:00","slug":"kazakhstans-transport-sector-increased-its-traffic-volume-by-11-9-in-early-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/kazakhstans-transport-sector-increased-its-traffic-volume-by-11-9-in-early-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan\u2019s transport sector increased its traffic volume by 11.9% in early 2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In January\u2013February 2026, Kazakhstan\u2019s transport sector demonstrated growth. According to the Bureau of National Statistics, the physical volume index of services in the \u201cTransport and Warehousing\u201d sector was 110.7% compared to the same period in 2025. In January, this figure reached 105.1%, and in February, 110.7%, indicating a gradual recovery and strengthening of business activity in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>In the first two months of 2026, all modes of transport in the country transported 163.3 million tons of freight, an 11.9% increase year-on-year. However, freight turnover decreased by 1.3% to 88.6 billion tonne-kilometers. Passenger traffic also increased: 317.4 million people used transport (+9.8%), and passenger turnover increased by 2.2% to 14 billion passenger-kilometers. In February, freight turnover was 91.7% of the same month last year, while passenger turnover increased to 101.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Road transport demonstrated the most significant growth, with freight volumes increasing by 25.5% and freight turnover by 2.4%. Rail transport carried 62.4 million tonnes of freight (+14.2%), with freight turnover remaining virtually unchanged at 54.6 billion tonne-kilometers (-0.1%). However, passenger traffic by rail decreased by 4.7% to 3.1 million passengers. Pipeline transport volumes decreased to 40.1 million tonnes (-6%) and freight turnover by 4.5%. In aviation, passenger traffic increased to 2.2 million passengers (+1.1%), while passenger turnover increased by 7.3%. Sea transport carried 619,800 tonnes of freight, a 10.8% decrease year-on-year. Overall, statistics show an increase in transportation volumes with a decrease in freight turnover, which may indicate an increase in the share of short routes and a redistribution of transport flows within the country.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January\u2013February 2026, Kazakhstan\u2019s transport sector demonstrated growth. According to the Bureau of National Statistics, the physical volume index of services in the \u201cTransport and Warehousing\u201d sector was 110.7% compared to the same period in 2025. In January, this figure reached 105.1%, and in February, 110.7%, indicating a gradual recovery and strengthening of business activity in the sector.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}