BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 22. Kazakhstan’s
KedenTransService, a subsidiary of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ),
plans to transport 163,000 tons of steel pipes from China in
September-October 2026 as part of a multimodal logistics project,
the company said.
The project involves organizing multimodal transportation of
steel pipes from China by rail and road.
“The shipments are carried out by rail and road transport along
two routes: imports to Kazakhstan and transit shipments to
Turkmenistan. In September-October this year, the planned
transportation volume will amount to 163,000 tons of steel pipes,”
the company said.
The company noted that organizing the shipments requires strict
compliance with special loading and securing procedures, as well as
close coordination between rail and road transport.
In January-August 2026, the volume of freight transported across
KTZ’s network reached 212.7 million tons. Domestic transportation
amounted to 112.4 million tons, while exports increased by 6.8% to
61.5 million tons.
Earlier in September, KTZ Express, another subsidiary
of KTZ, expanded the geography of international transportation by
adding new Asian routes to Kazakhstan’s transport and logistics
system. The company organized its first multimodal container
shipment of chemical products from Japan’s Port of Kobe to
Almaty.
The route, spanning approximately 6,000 kilometers,
combines sea and rail transportation. From the Port of Kobe, the
containers are transported by sea for about 1,620 kilometers to
Lianyungang, China, where, following customs clearance, the cargo
is transferred to rail and travels another approximately 4,400
kilometers to Almaty.
At the China-Kazakhstan border, the containers are
transferred to rolling stock operating on Kazakhstan’s rail gauge
at the Altynkol crossing, after which the shipment continues to its
final destination in Almaty.
