19.4 mln tons of transit cargo transported through Kazakhstan

In this case, the main countries of destination are the countries of Central Asia - 75.6% or 11.5 million tons. In particular, Uzbekistan - 7.1 million tons, Kyrgyzstan - 2.26 million tons, Tajikistan - 1.2 million tons and Afghanistan - 0.26 million tons, while Russia accounts for 2.8%, China - 13.8% and EU countries - 7.1%.

“Speaking about the transported products by means of the railway transport, the first place with 18.5% is oil. Then comes the ferrous metals - 10.7%, chemicals and soda - 6.8%, chemical and mineral fertilizers - 2.2%, grain - 1.7%, as well as other cargo - 55.6%”, the message reads.

The volume of transit traffic by cars amounted to 1.93 million tons. The main directions of road transport were as follows: from China to the countries of the European Union - 14 thousand tons, to Central Asian countries - 779 thousand tons, 61.7 thousand tons of cargo were delivered to Russia. From the countries of Central Asia to the European Union - 106.5 thousand tons, to Russia - 396 thousand tons, to China - 5.4 thousand tons. 9.7 thousand tons of cargo were delivered from Russia to the countries of Central Asia, 567 thousand tons from the countries of the European Union to Central Asia, and 2.7 thousand tons of cargo to China.

Road transport mainly transported cars, various mechanisms, equipment and apparatus. Including electronic equipment - 20.1%, plant products - 17.3%, consumer goods-15%, raw materials, fabrics, textile materials and products from them - 11.5%, and others - 8, 6%

Also, according to the results of 2019, the total volume of transit transportation of containers through the territory of Kazakhstan increased by 23% and amounted to 664 thousand containers. Of these, the number of containers in the direction of China – Europe – China increased by 11% and amounted to 347 thousand containers.

Thus, in 2019, Kazakhstan earned over 450 billion tenge on transit traffic.