The first and largest industrial
and logistics hub in Central Asia, with a capacity of up to 500,000 containers per
year, is set to be built near Almaty. Its total cargo turnover will reach five
million tonnes annually. The project aims to increase freight traffic with
regional countries and China due to the unique location near the Chinese
border. This was announced during Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov’s inspection
of the industrial and transport logistics potential of the Almaty region. He
toured several facilities focused on import substitution and export
orientation, including a fishery complex whose capacity is slated for a tenfold
increase. The Prime Minister emphasized that food security is a top priority
for the country and stressed the importance of self-sufficiency across all
major food categories. Additionally, Bektenov reviewed the operations of
companies within industrial zones, examining the manufacturing processes of reinforced
concrete products at the BENT plant, construction materials at the
TechnoNicol-Central Asia plant, and ice cream by the Shin-Line company.
“To date, we are the leading producers of reinforced
concrete sleepers in Kazakhstan and the second-largest in the CIS after Russia,
with rail fasteners made entirely of local content,” said Dinmukhamed Kuziyev, president
of the BENT Company.
“At present, our products are exported to all
Central Asian countries. We have an ambitious goal to expand to
Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf. We now rank 36 among all ice cream
manufacturers globally and aim to enter the top ten. We currently produce nearly
20,000 tonnes of ice cream, with plans to increase this number fivefold,” said
Andrey Shin, president of the Shin-Line group of companies.
The total volume of industrial production in
the Almaty region surged by over three percent for the first four months of
this year. It exceeded 573 billion tenge in monetary terms compared to
the same period in 2023.
