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By Aynur Jafarova

Kazakhstan has announced that it plans to double cargo transit in accordance with the state program on transport infrastructure development by 2020 introduced in Almaty on Monday.

The program envisages the increase of goods transit through Kazakhstan by twofold by 2020 and by 10 times by 2050, the Kazakh Transport and Communications Ministry reported.

The program is mainly aimed at creating the modern transport infrastructure, which will increase opportunities for Kazakhstan's economic growth and meet the people's needs for transport services.

As a part of the program, Kazakhstan will build nine new bus terminals, 61 bus stations in the district centers, 733 transport service points in rural areas and villages and 1,104 taxi ranks in towns.

Some 34 bus terminals and 138 bus stations will be brought in line with the standards, 300 railway stations and 14 airports will be reconstructed during this period.

Moreover, in the period of 2013-2020, some 21,390 kilometers of roads will be repaired. It is planned also to complete reconstructing six international routes passing through the country.

The development of SILK WIND (China- Turkey-Eastern Europe) project infrastructure is one of the most important items of the program. In particular, Kazakhstan plans to develop Dostyk station, create dry port in the Khorgos - Eastern Gate free economic zone, develop country's ferry fleet and build 3 new dry cargo terminals in the Aktau port.

According to the ministry's report, all kinds of transportation processes will be automated and thanks to this measure the document registration procedures will be simplified, time for delivery of cargo will be reduced for many times, management of transport stream and effectiveness of transport control will be improved, security on the roads will increase by 25-35 percent and death rate at road traffic accident will decrease.