The 1000th container train has passed through Altynkol station along the route China – Europe

On December 1st of this year through Altynkol station and dry port SEZ “Khorgos — Eastern Gate” in the direction of China — Europe the 1000th container train passed.

The train, organized by “KTZ Express” JSC together with “United freight logistics company” JSC (OTLK), undertook customs procedures and overload to the track 1520 for just 55 minutes.

The train with the production of the Hewlett Packard (HP) company will arrive at the destination on December 7 of this year.

“The attractiveness of this route for clients is based on well-developed infrastructure and high-quality logistics services provided at the dry port SEZ” Khorgos — Eastern Gate “and along the whole route on the track 1520,” — said president of “KTZ Express” JSC Dias Iskakov.

At present “KTZ Express” JSC together with its partners operates on 17 regular container routes. In addition to the anchor partner in Lyanyungane, cooperation has been established with Chinese cities Chunchin, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Xi’an, Yiwu, Hefei, Lanzhou. The company’s customers include large multinational companys Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Huawei, Foxconn, Toshiba and others.

As the first vice-president OTLK E. Zhakishev notes, “in the near future customers will be offered a new transit time of delivery by infrastructure track of 1520 mm. This will improve the attractiveness of OTLK rail route and provide the determined by shareholders growth rate of freight volumes up to 1 million. TEU is of in the planning horizon up to 2025”.

Bandwidth on OTLK basic route of the railway infrastructure allows today ensuring unimpeded passage volume in 3-4 times more than in 2016. The terminals at the borders with the EU and China also have a substantial margin of safety."