Kazakhstan railway news – Page 3
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NewsNine bids for Almaty light rail project
KAZAKHSTAN: Almaty municipality has received nine bids for the 26-year PPP contract to design, build and operate a light rail line. The bidders are: CMC China National Machinery Import & Export Corp and CRCC16 China Railway 16th Bureau Group Co;China Machinery Engineering Corp, China High Speed Railway Technology Co ...
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NewsTeardrop-shaped cement wagons ordered
INTERNATIONAL: RM Rail has won orders to supply Russia’s Gazprombank Leasing and VEB-Leasing and Kazakhstan’s largest cement manufacturer with a total of more than 1 000 Type 19-1217 cement hopper wagons by September 2019. The wagon manufacturer said the Type 19-1217 has an ‘innovative’ teardrop shaped body giving a capacity ...
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NewsHyundai Rotem to supply trains for Almaty metro extension
KAZAKHSTAN: Hyundai Rotem has signed an 80·8bn won contract to supply 32 metro cars for the Almaty metro, the manufacturer announced on October 25. Rotem is to deliver the vehicles from its Changwon plant in South Korea by 2020, in time for the opening of the line’s extension. The ...
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NewsInterest invited in Almaty Light Rail Transit PPP
KAZAKHSTAN: The city of Almaty’s transport department has invited expressions of interest in a public-private partnership contract to develop a light rail line for opening in the third quarter of 2022. The proposed Almaty LRT would have 37 stops on a 22·7 km 1 435 mm gauge route along one ...
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NewsTransmashholding to buy Tulpar-Talgo
KAZAKHSTAN: Transmashholding has signed an agreement to acquire a 99% stake in coach manufacturer Tulpar-Talgo from national railway KTZ. The agreement was signed at InnoTrans 2018 on September 20 by Director General of the Russian rolling stock manufacturing group Kirill Lipa and KTZ Chairman Kanat Alpysbaev. The ...
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NewsAlmaty BRT route extended
KAZAKHSTAN: Almaty municipality has inaugurated the second phase of its first bus rapid transit route. Linking the Orbita district with the city centre, the 4 km section doubles the length of the BRT route. Work began earlier this year and was completed at a cost of 4·2bn tenge. The ...
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NewsOpportunities in the Kazakh wagon market
KAZAKHSTAN: United Wagon Co’s TikhvinSpetsMash plant has begun delivering 64 covered wagons to customers in Kazakhstan, where the company sees a significant potential market for modern and high-capacity vans. UWC said Kazakh agricultural output had increased this year and exports of goods to Russia and China were growing. Demand for ...
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NewsÖskemen tram services to restart using ex-Almaty vehicles
KAZAKHSTAN: The first five of 13 used KT4Dt trams bought from Almaty for 118·5m tenge have arrived in Öskemen. The trams were built in 1983-85 and originally operated in Berlin, before being acquired by Almaty in 2013. They have been out of use since that city’s tram network closed at ...
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NewsEurasian transit freight joint venture restructured
INTERNATIONAL: The United Transport & Logistics Co intermodal transit freight joint venture of the national rail operators of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia was reorganised with effect from April 2. UTLC said the changes which had been approved by the partners at the end of last year were intended to increase ...
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NewsÖskemen tram operations suspended
KAZAKHSTAN: Tram operations in Öskemen were suspended on March 12, after debts accumulated by operator Takhami Put led to a limiting of the traction electricity supply. The 16·5 km, 1 524 mm gauge network dating from 1959 operated four routes. The fleet consisted of 31 Type 71-605 ...
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NewsGE Transportation signs Kazakh shunting loco contract
KAZAKHSTAN: Contracts for the supply of 300 shunting locomotives and the provision of 18 years of support for 175 TEP33A passenger locomotives were signed by national railway KTZ and GE Transportation during Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s visit to the USA on January 17. The two contracts are worth more than ...
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NewsAlstom takes majority stake in Kazakh joint venture
KAZAKHSTAN: Alstom announced on December 22 that it had signed an agreement to acquire from national railway KTZ its 25% stake in the EKZ electric locomotive production joint venture. Subject to regulatory approval, this would see Alstom hold 75% of the company, the remaining 25% owned by Transmashholding. When EKZ ...
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NewsGE to install Trip Optimizer on KTZ Evolution locomotive fleet
KAZAKHSTAN: National railway KTZ’s freight business has signed an agreement to deploy GE’s Trip Optimizer efficiency system on its fleet of TE33A Evolution Series diesel locomotives. The agreement announced on December 11 builds on a memorandum of understanding signed in June under which KTZ and GE Transportation agreed to explore ...
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NewsKazakhstan to Turkey via the Baku – Tbilisi – Kars railway
ASIA: The first containers have been delivered using the recently-inaugurated Baku – Tbilisi – Kars railway. This is how they travelled from Kazakhstan to Turkey. [<a href="//storify.com/railwaygazette/btk" target="_blank">View the story "Baku - Tbilisi - Kars railway first freight train" on Storify</a>]
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NewsTwo-for-three plan for Eurasian rail freight
INTERNATIONAL: Kazakhstan’s national railway KTZ is implementing a capacity optimisation plan which will see the containers from three 1 435 mm gauge intermodal trains arriving at the Dostyk border crossing from China being loaded on two trains for the 1 520 mm gauge leg to the Polish border near Brest ...
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NewsTuran Express launches subsidised Almaty passenger services
KAZAKHSTAN: Private company Turan Express has begun operating local passenger services from Kapshagai and Uzynagash to Almaty on behalf of the city authority. Following the failure of two privately funded attempts to introduce services on Almaty – Kapshagai corridor, the local authority decided to call tenders for the operation of ...
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NewsAlstom opens Silk Road locomotive repair centre
KAZAKHSTAN: Alstom has inaugurated a depot in Astana which will undertake the corrective and preventive maintenance and overhaul of Prima KZ8A freight and KZ4AT passenger locomotives under a 25-year contract with national railway KTZ. The 2 660 m2 facility includes a repair and testing hall, spare parts stores and office ...
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NewsLoco manufacturer obtains first IRIS certification in Kazakhstan
KAZAKHSTAN: The Astana-based EKZ joint venture of Alstom (50%), national railway KTZ (25%) and Transmashholding (25%) has obtained International Railway Industry Standard certification. Bernard Peille, Managing Director of Alstom in South CIS, said EKZ was ‘proud’ to be the first railway vehicle manufacturer in the country to obtain IRIS certification, ...
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NewsPresident opens Astana Nurly Zhol station
KAZAKHSTAN: ‘Nurly Zhol station is unique, there is no such station in the entire post-Soviet area’, said President Nursultan Nazarbayev when he officially opened the new passenger hub in Astana on May 31. The first passenger services began using the station on June 1, and the first international service arrived ...
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Metro Report InternationalAstana light rail construction begins
KAZAKHSTAN: Construction has started on a light rail line in Astana with the installation of piles for the elevated section of the alignment. Of the 50 construction workers currently involved, 10 are local and 40 are from China. Project authority Astana LRT LLP signed a construction agreement in May ...