Railway administrations of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are planning to establish a joint venture, this is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply.

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan want to create a joint railway enterprise

This became known during an informal meeting of the presidents of the two countries, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

They want to create it to provide freight terminals at the Kazakh-Chinese border and in Uzbekistan for organizing freight transportation along the ‘China-Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan’ route.

They also want to involve the future joint venture in the development of the Trans-Afghan route.

Source: Akorda.

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