During the meeting President Nursultan Nazarbayev said that the full realization of industrial and innovative program depends on the transport infrastructure including the development of the railway sector.
- Today the country pays considerable attention to the development of transport infrastructure. We invest a lot to that field. However, all implemented infrastructure projects should be of great benefit to the people and the country - said the Head of State.
Askar Mamin commented that "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy" is the operator of the construction of new railway lines in the country.
- In this direction we implement a number of projects including new railway lines Zhezkazgan – Beyneu, Arkalyk – Shubarkol, Zhetygen - Khorgas, Ozen - the state border with Turkmenistan. The total length of new railway lines is about 1700 km, - noted Askar Mamin.
Also the president of JSC "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy" reported on a meeting with Chinese partners on the establishment of terminal infrastructure in the Chinese port of Lianyungang.
According to him, in 2020 JSC "NC "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy" plans to increase the volume of transit traffic by all modes of transport from 18 to 36 million tons.
Effectively solving tasks to meet the needs of the economy and the population in high-quality services for passengers and cargo, the Company is implementing a large-scale program of main production facilities of their own plants, thus reducing wear of basic production assets in recent years by 20%.
Prior to 2020 KTZ intend to reduce the wear of locomotives - from 77% to 40% , of freight wagons - from 69% to 34%, of railway network - from 66% to 40%, of passenger wagons - from 70 % to about 40% compared with 2010.
Projects to upgrade infrastructure and equipment with equipment from leading world manufacturers provide the localization of production in Kazakhstan.
The volume of released engineering products in 2012 amounted to 155 billion tenge against 10 billion tenge in 2008, and by 2015, according to the adopted strategic documents, this figure will reach 300 billion which is 30 times more than in 2008.
For a short period in Kazakhstan a new branch of railway engineering with large volumes of output of high value-added production and productivity was created.
In order to develop the quality of services the Company implements a program of high-speed passenger traffic. The manufacture of modern passenger coaches was mastered.
In 2012 under the program of high-speed passenger movement two new high-speed trains that link Almaty with Petropavlovsk ("Zhetisu") and Aktobe with Astana ("Aktobe") were launched.
This year 2 new routes Almaty-Astana and Astana - Atyrau will be introduced.
Following the meeting the Head of State has given a number of specific assignments.
Press-service of JSC "NC "KTZ"