New ferry complex built in Kazakhstan
By Trend
A new ferry complex has been built in the Kuryk port on the
Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy national company reported.
The official launch of the first stage of the complex took place on
December 6.
Kuryk port is an important section of the Trans-Caspian
international transport corridor and now its railway and port
infrastructure is ready to transship cargo.
"Kuryk - is our way to the Caucasus and Europe," Kazakh President
Nursultan Nazarbayev said at the opening ceremony.
Earlier, ferry transportation from Kazakhstan to other Caspian
littoral states was possible only through the port of Aktau.
However, the ferry terminal in this port has been working to its
capacity over the recent years.
It is expected that the ferry complex in Kuryk will make it
possible to triple the existing ferry transport capacities of
Kazakhstan and strengthen the Kazakh section of the China-Europe
transport corridor.
Kazakhstan plans to increase transit transportation from the
current 18 million tons of cargo to 33 million tons in 2020 and to
50 million tons in 2030.
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