Kazakhstan to begin terminal construction at Alat port in 2025

Kazakhstan will begin the construction of a terminal at Alat port in 2025, Transport Minister Marat Karabaev said, according to Report's Kazakh bureau.

"Kazakhstan will begin construction of terminals next year: at Alat port, in Selyatino village near Moscow, at Svisloch station in Belarus, and in Tashkent. The total capacity of the new terminals will be 1.2 million containers per year," said Marat Karabaev, speaking on December 23 at a government meeting in the Mazhilis.

According to him, there are future plans to create joint terminals in the Romanian city of Constanta, Hungarian Budapest, and Chinese Urumqi.

"As a result, the capacity of Kazakhstan's external terminals will increase fivefold, which will allow attracting cargo from major cargo-forming countries to Kazakh transport corridors," said the minister.

The construction of new terminals abroad is necessary to attract cargo flows to Kazakh corridors, explained the minister.

According to his information, Kazakh-Chinese terminals are currently operating at the port of Lianyungang and in the dry port of Xi'an, and a terminal owned by a Kazakh entrepreneur with a capacity of 500,000 containers per year is functioning at the port of Poti in Georgia.