In 2023, the volume of transportation along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route increased by 65% to 2.94 million tons, this is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply.

Kazakhstan aims to increase the volume of transportation along the Middle Corridor

Deputy Minister of Transport of Kazakhstan Satzhan Ablaliev stated this at a Kazakhstan-Azerbaijan Business Council meeting in Baku.

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According to him, in 2024, they plan to further increase this indicator by 43% to 4.2 million tons.

“As of January 2024, the volume of transportation along the TCITR has increased by 2.5 times compared to January 2023. At the same time, there is noted growth in transit of Chinese containers by almost 3 times,” noted the Kazakh official.

Source: Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan.

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