In 2024, Kazakhstan plans to commence the construction of the 270-kilometer “Bakhty-Ayagoz” railway line leading to the future third railway checkpoint on the Chinese border, this is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply.

The construction of a railway line

The project’s cost is 321 billion tenge ($690.5 million). Subsequently, there are plans to connect the new railway to the “Semey-Aktau” section and the transit corridor “China-Europe.”

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The introduction of the “Bakhty-Ayagoz” railway is expected to ease congestion at the border railway stations of “Dostyk” and “Altynkol” and increase freight transportation between Kazakhstan and China by 20 million tons annually.

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