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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Nanjing, January 30 (Xinhua) — In 2025, the operation and implementation of key cooperation projects between China and Kazakhstan in the transport and logistics sector were in full swing, giving new impetus to the construction of a new Eurasian land-sea multimodal transportation corridor.
Last year, total cargo turnover through the China-Kazakhstan logistics base in Lianyungang (Jiangsu Province, eastern China) amounted to 5.1597 million tons, an increase of 13.74 percent year-on-year. The Khorgos-Eastern Gate land port on the border between the two countries handled a total of 340,000 standard containers (twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs), a 4.78 percent increase compared to the 2024 target. Work on the first phase of the container hub project at the Port of Aktau in Kazakhstan was also completed, and preparations for its commissioning are progressing rapidly, according to Lianyungang Port Group LLC.
GATEWAY TO THE SEA
Officially commissioned in 2014, the China-Kazakhstan logistics base in Lianyungang is the first concrete project under the Belt and Road Initiative. It has already become an important "gateway to the sea" for Central Asian countries.
As of the end of December 2025, the base's total freight turnover reached 43.02 million tons. Currently, six international rail freight routes pass through it, covering 104 stations in Asia and Europe. It has become an important platform for transit, warehousing, logistics, and trade for five Central Asian countries. More than 400 types of goods, such as wheat, household appliances, and photovoltaic modules, are collected and distributed here.
Goods are delivered from here by train as part of the international China-Europe and China-Central Asia rail freight services to Almaty, Kazakhstan, in six days, and to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in approximately 10 days. Furthermore, goods can be shipped by sea from the port of Lianyungang to nearly a thousand ports in more than 150 countries and regions worldwide.
Заместитель генерального директора компании “Китайско-казахстанская международная логистическая компания г. Ляньюньган” Беделов Азильхан заявил, что с базы в Юго-Восточную Азию эффективно и безопасно доставляются пшеница и минеральные продукты из Центральной Азии, а в Центральную Азию – автомобили, фотоэлектрическая продукция и другие товары из Китая, Республики Корея, Японии и других стран. Такого рода сотрудничество дает результаты по формуле “1+1>2″.
TRANSSHIPMENT UNIT
The Khorgos-Eastern Gate dry port is the second joint Chinese-Kazakh logistics project, following the aforementioned logistics base. The project includes facilities such as a Chinese-Kazakh railway transshipment station, a wheat transshipment station, and a container yard.
According to Chen Yong, Deputy General Director of KTZE-Khorgos Gateway LLP, 10 new broad-gauge railway lines were built at the land port in 2025, along with smart infrastructure upgrades to ensure rapid container handling. This reduced container handling time from five hours to less than one hour.
According to data, from 2017 to 2025, the dry port handled a total of 2.0974 million TEUs, accounting for almost a fifth of the total volume of transshipped containers transported by freight trains traveling west from China. The port has become an important transshipment hub for cross-border freight transport between China and Europe/China and Central Asia.
Thanks to the advantages of the land port as a logistics hub, enterprises from various sectors have joined the Khorgos-Eastern Gate special economic zone in Kazakhstan, facilitating the development of manufacturing, information technology, logistics, and other industries.
SUPPORT FOR TRANSIT TRANSPORTATION
According to Lianyungang Port Group, the first phase of the container hub project at the Port of Aktau in Kazakhstan, which was completed in late 2025, is scheduled to be commissioned in June 2026. As a reminder, the first phase of the first launch complex within this project was officially commissioned in June 2025.
To further improve the safety and efficiency of China-Europe trains, in 2023, Lianyungang Port Group and Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), Kazakhstan's national railway company, signed a strategic cooperation agreement to implement a container hub project at the port of Aktau. This is the first large-scale logistics project with Chinese investment on the Caspian Sea coast.
According to the data, the total project area is approximately 19 hectares, with a design capacity of 240,000 TEUs per year. The project is being implemented in two phases. The first phase covers an area of 9.1 hectares and includes three railway loading and unloading lines and a container yard capable of storing approximately 690 containers. This will allow for the full cycle of operations, including container transshipment, customs inspection, and hazardous cargo handling.
According to Darkhan Ismagambetov, Deputy General Director of Aktau International Container Hub, the project will help increase throughput capacity, reduce cargo handling times, strengthen the Aktau port's position as a key hub on the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TCITR), and create new jobs.
Furthermore, the information platform already allows real-time tracking of China-Europe trains departing from Lianyungang throughout their entire journey. In the future, information interconnectivity between the aforementioned three hubs will be ensured through the joint construction and use of a data transmission channel for multimodal transport within the new Eurasian land-sea transport corridor.
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