Kazakhstan’s railway operator plans to boost transit traffic from China to Europe

06.03.2025

Kazakhstan’s national railway operator Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) plans to increase railway transit through the Kazakhstan-China railway terminal in Xi’an by 65% to 456,000 tons by 2025, according to Rail-news.kz.

In 2024, the railway transit surpassed 276,000 tons, while the Xi’an hub’s current annual capacity is 133,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).

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