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Transport Landscape of the Republic of Kazakhstan TRANSPORT LANDSCAPE OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN 2018 г. DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORT IN KAZAKHSTAN 1 With the acquisition of Independence, Kazakhstan received a weak transportation system Over the past 10 years, in the transport industry invested 30 billion US dollars Railways built Reconstructed The port capacity in the Reconstructed of the automobile roads Caspian sea runways 2,5 6,3 to 26 in 15 thousand km thousand km mln. tons airports 2 TRANSIT TRANSPORTATION THROUGH THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN 33-35 days Kazakhstan, being in fierce competition for attracting transit cargo , was able to create a competitive land route as opposed to traditional international routes Kotka Saint Petersburg Klaipeda Moscow 18-20 days Hamburg Lodz Warsaw Rotterdam Berlin Brest Kartaly London Antwerp ASTANA Duisburg Izov Актобе Paris Pardubice Nurnberg Vienna 13-15 days Budapest Dostyk Shikhezi Saksaulskaya Ilichevsk Aktau Lyons Milan Almaty Constanta Batumi Akhalkalaki Shymkent Altynkol Urumqi Kuryk Tashkent Kars Alyat Dushanbe Madrid Istanbul ASHGABAD Korla Hakata Serahs Xian Lianyungang Mazari Zhengzhou Tehran Sharif Lanzhou Suzhou Chengdu Hefei Chongqing 35-45 days Wuhan Yiwu Ningbo Bandar Abbas Kunming Putian Dubai Guangzhou Shenzhen Mundra Hong Kong Travel Distance, In 2020, it is planned to increase: Маршруты time, кm days annual transit traffic to 2 million TEUs Through Kazakhstan 9-10 ths. 13-15 revenues from transit traffic to $ 5 billion Trans Siberian route 11-12 ths 18-20 The Northern Sea Route 14 -15 ths. 33-35 South Sea Route 23 000 ths. 45-60 3 CONTAINER TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT Saint Peterburg Moscow Клайпеда Брест Berlin Илецк Astana Озинки Аксарайская Dostyk Оазис Актау Almaty Altynkol Болашак Nahodka Ablyk Urumchi Istanbul Baku Чжэнчжоу Pusan Lianyungan Osaka Tokio Uhan Chendu Chuncin Bender-Abbas Абу-Даби 17 international routes with major United Transport Logistics Company (OTLC) consolidation points of China's cargo flows Container flow Container flow Container flow China- Caucasus - Turkey (thousand TEU) China - EU - China (thousand TEU) Kazakhstan - Turkmenistan - Iran (thousand TEU) 201 In 2020 it is planned to increase the annual volume of transit traffic to 2 million containers DEVELOPMENT OF RAILROAD TRANSPORT 4 ARKALYK – SHOBARKOL LENGTH – 214 км ZHEZKAZGANЖЕЗКАЗГАН – – БЕЙНЕУ BEINEU LENGTH – 1036 км Russia ASTANA Arkalyk Shobarkul Shalkar Moyinty Aktogai Zhezkazgan China Beineu Saksaulskaya Dostyk Korgas Zhetygen KURYK UzenUzen Uzbekistan Shu Almaty Turkmenistan UZEN – BOLASHAK УЗЕНЬ – БОЛАШАК Kyrgyzstan ZHETYGENЖЕТЫГЕН –– KORGAS КОРГАС Overall length – 926,5 км, в.т.ч.: ALMATY-SHU Overall length – 579 км, в.т.ч.: Kazakhstan – 146 км; LENGTH–112 км Kazakhstan – 293 км; Turkmenistan – 700,5 км; China – 286 км. Iran – 80 км. 4 TRANS CASPIAN INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT ROUTE 5 Participants: railway and maritime administrations of China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine and Romania SYNERGY OF LOGISTIC INFRASTRUCTURE ON 10 seaports THE ROUTE 40 maritime fleet (ferries and vessels) Клайпеда 70 000 railway rolling stock Гамбург 10 000 km of railway network Дуйсбург 2 000 000 sq. m. of storage facilities АСТАНА Изов Аркалык Актобе Шалкар Нюрнберг Шубаркуль Жезказган Достык Шихези Бейнеу Констанца Саксаульская Ильичевск Актау СЭЗ Хоргос ВВ Урумчи Батуми Курык Узень Алматы Ахалкалаки Алтынколь Шымкент Корла Стамбул Карс Алят Amirabad Сиань Чжэнчжоу Ляньюнган Ланьчжоу Чэнду Хэфэй Чунцин Ahalhalaki Ухань Иу Нинбо Куньмин Путянь Kars Гуанчжоу Шеньжень Гонконг WESTERN GATE OF KAZAKHSTAN 6 Port Aktau ASTRAKHAN 3 dry cargo terminals with the capacity of 3 million tons were built in the port of ОЛЯ Aktau increase in the capacity of seaports from AKTAU 16.5 to 19.5 million tons KURYK Port Kuryk MAHACHKALA in mln. tons Phase 1: Railways ferry terminal Capacity - 4 million tons Put into operation - December 2016 . BAKU Transported: 1.5 million tons of cargo ALYAT TURKMENBASHI increase in the capacity of seaports from 16.5 to 23.5 million tons Phase 2: Autopark terminal BENDER-ENZELLI Capacity-2 million tons AMIRABAD NOUSHAHR Commissioning in 2018. 7 CREATION AND COMPLEX DEVELOPMENT OF FEZ "KHORGOS-GATE WAY" Industrial area 224,4 hа Logistic area 224,9 hа Dry port 129 ha Khorgos KAZAKHSTAN Gate Way Lianyungang CHINA Options Forecast freight traffic: 4,4 mln. tons in year June 29, 2015: the first start-up complex (dry port) was put into commercial operation. International Managing Director: DP World Port Operator On October 18, 2016, the infrastructure facilities of the FEZ "Khorgos-Gate Way" were put into operation LOGISTIC TERMINAL IN THE PORT OF LIANYUNGAN To date, the formation of the infrastructure of FEZ has been fully TOTAL AREA 21.6 HA completed Container area - 13 ha Open area for dry cargo - 6 ha Covered warehouses - 1.2 ha (12 thousand m²) 79 participants of the Special Economic Zone were registered ROADS 8 Plans for 2018-2020 reconstruction - 4,4 thousand km. For the period from 1991 to 2017 In 2020, the proportion of roads reconstructed 10 thousand km , in good and satisfactory in 2015-2017 - 2 thousand km condition will be 90% ASTANA CIVIL AVIATION 9 2017 Transit air transportation In the period from 2010 to 2017 , the number of transit passengers compliance with ICAO of Kazakhstan airlines grew by 74% safety requirements more than 30 times from 20 thousand to 620 2nd place among CIS countries thousand passengers per year million transported 7,4 passengers thousand transit 620 passengers 2018 Pilot project "open skies" in Astana thousand transit 900 passengers A pilot project of a 72- hour visa-free regime for transit passengers 2020 of the People's Republic of China million transit 1,6 passengers INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEM 10 A unified platform that unites a complex of interconnected automated systems Goal: Effect: improving the quality of transportation development of Reducing the number of injured as a result of the transit potential of the Republic of Kazakhstan; an accident up to 30%; safety in transport; Increase the transit flow to 10%; environment protection; The increase in the volume of trucking of increase the effectiveness of the response of all goods in the country to 14%. transport services The implementation of E-FREIGHT and the SMRA The system of management of road Introduction and adaptation of the assets on the basis of detailed data on information system for paperless the state of roads will allow to optimize workflow in the field of air freight the expenses allocated for the "E-freight" implementation of works on the maintenance and repair of roads. Goal: increase efficiency; Goal: reduce the processing time for cargo air traffic; Objective assessment of road conditions; increase the attractiveness of cargo air transportation Savings on road repairs by optimizing expenses for their and transit through the territory of Kazakhstan life cycle. Effect: Effect: Direct macroeconomic effect until 2025 - Objective assessment of the state of 100% of the 10.8 billion tenge. republican roads; Indirect macroeconomic effect until 2025 - 9.9 billion Diagnostics and safety assessment (EuroRAP), for 3 tenge. years coverage of 97.4 thousand km. Thank you!.
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