Kazakhstan’s external sea terminals may appear
in several countries at once, with the first launching in Poti, Georgia, this
April. The $30 million project was started by a domestic investor two years
ago. Poti has more than 20 berthing cranes, 17 kilometers of railway tracks,
and the annual throughput capacity of 120,000 containers. This will bring
Kazakhstan one step closer to the main Central Asian transit hub status. Cargo
will move though Kazakhstan via the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and the
Black Sea transport corridor to any point in the world with the opposite
direction through Kazakhstan to Central Asian states. The external terminals
capacity will attract cargo to Kazakhstan’s transport corridors.
«Negotiations on implementing similar projects
in Azerbaijan’s Alyat, Hungary, and Romania’s Constanta terminal have already
begun, with the Alyat project to launch this year. Our main objective within
the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route is to increase capacity to 10
million tons at the initial stage,» said Zhasulan Kerimbayev, spokesperson for
the Kazakh Transport Ministry.
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