The volume of cargo transportation along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) increased by 63% to 2.5 million tons in seven months of 2024, Kassym Tlepov, deputy chairman of the Railway and Water Transport Committee of the Kazakh Transport Ministry said at an Aug. 20 briefing in the Central Communications Service (CCS), reported the CCS’s press office.
Chinese transit surged by over 14 times, with the range of cargo transported along the TITR expanding yearly. Kazakhstan’s ports of Aktau and Kuryk handled approximately 4.2 million tons of cargo, similar to last year’s figures. The country plans to transship nearly eight million tons through these ports by the end of the year, with 4.2 million tons of that volume expected to move via the TITR.