The freight train left recently from the Kazakh-Chinese terminal in Xi’an, China. The containers were first transhipped at the KTZE Khorgos Gateway dry port on the Kazakh-Chinese border. From there, the train continued along the KTZE network to the Saryagash border station and then to the final destination of Tashkent station in Uzbekistan, a major transport hub in Central Asia.

Such a short transit time was made possible by the use of KTZ’s terminal capacity in China and the consistent cooperation between the railway administrations of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in developing the border infrastructure of the two countries.

Thanks to the reconstruction and improvement of technological processes, the capacity of the Saryagash interstate junction station, through which the main flow of goods between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan passes, was increased by 50%.

The express cargo delivery service was organised as a result of the agreements reached between the presidents of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Khiva in April on facilitating cargo transportation along the China-Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan route and developing the Trans-Afghanistan route.