Belarusian Railway has unexpectedly become the beneficiary of difficulties in logistics caused to the sanctions. This is evidenced by statistics on the volume of container shipments.

Construction of a new railway line Darbaza — Maktaaral with a length of 152 km started in Turkestan region. Alikhan Smailov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, gave an official start to the works in the mode of teleconference.