January 14, 2020
Over the past year, Kazakhstan earned over 450 billion tenge (1,184 billion US dollars) in transit traffic, the press service of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan reports.
According to the results of last year, the volume of transit cargo transported through Kazakhstan amounted to 19.4 million tons. Including, the volume of transit traffic by rail amounted to 17.5 million tons. In this case, the main destinations are the countries of Central Asia - 75.6%, or 11.5 million tons. In particular, Uzbekistan - 7.1 million tons, Kyrgyzstan - 2.26 million tons, Tajikistan - 1.2 million tons and Afghanistan - 0.26 million tons, while Russia accounts for 2.8%, China - 13 , 8% and EU countries - 7.1%.
The volume of transit traffic by road amounted to 1.93 million tons. The main directions of road transport were as follows: from China to the countries of the European Union - 14 thousand tons, to Central Asian countries 779 thousand tons, 61.7 thousand tons of cargo were delivered to Russia. From the countries of Central Asia to the European Union - 106.5 thousand tons, to Russia - 396 thousand tons, to China - 5.4 thousand tons. 9.7 thousand tons of cargo were delivered from Russia to the countries of Central Asia, 567 thousand tons from the countries of the European Union to Central Asia, and 2.7 thousand tons of cargo to China.
Also, according to the results of 2019, the total volume of transit transportation of containers through the territory of Kazakhstan increased by 23% and amounted to 664 thousand containers. Of these, the number of containers in the direction of China – Europe – China increased by 11% and amounted to 347 thousand containers.
Thus, in 2019, Kazakhstan earned over 450 billion tenge on transit traffic.
