Kazakhstan Railways and Russian Railways intend to create a major transport hub in the Domodedovo district of Moscow region, designed to process 400 thousand containers by 2024, the president of KTZ Kanat Alpysbayev said during the XIII Forum of interregional cooperation of Kazakhstan and Russia. For this project, KTZ Express and Coalco Development signed an agreement that involves the implementation of the infrastructure project “Central dry port” at the urban district of Domodedovo, Moscow Region.
In 2016 the volume of container traffic on the direction Asia – Europe exceed by 100 times compared to the level of 2011, and by 2020 it will be increased up to 800 thousand TEU.
The transport space of the Eurasian Economic Union occupies almost 40% of the Eurasian continent territory, which allows to become a player in the global market as a connecting Europe and Asia.
Currently, the Eurasian railway network provides optimum corridors for the transport of cargo on the direction East – West and North – South. Is forming infrastructure corridors, expanding approaches to border crossing and seaports, creates a support network of terminal and logistics centers in the areas of consolidation and distribution of cargo flows.
A key goal of cooperative strategic project is the union of transit potential of the Russian, Kazakhstani and Belarusian railways to increase the volume of rail traffic in the corridor from Asia to Europe.
“ULTC, without a doubt, it is the driver of the transport infrastructure and logistics technologies in Russia and Kazakhstan. The cooperative implementation of the project is an important contribution to the process of conjugation of the Eurasian economic integration and the construction of the Silk Road economic belt,” Oleg Belozerov, the president of Russian Railways said.
According to the president of KTZ Kanat Alpysbayev, the key points of consolidation and distribution of cargo flows on the Eurasian continent are the modernization of Kazakhstan transport and logistics infrastructure, the implementation of the program “Nurly Zhol”, the formation of the core network of logistics centers.
The most important logistics centers are the Kazakh-Chinese terminal at the port of Lianyungang and Central Asia’s largest dry port Horgos.
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