Kazakhstan,China to increase flights frequency
By Trend
Frequency of flights between the cities of Kazakhstan and China will increase in 2017, Kazakh Investment and Development Ministry said in a message after a meeting of Kazakh Investment and Development Minister Jenis Kasymbek and Chinese Transport Minister Li Xiaopeng.
The weekly flights between Almaty and Beijing will increase from five to seven in 2017.Meanwhile, the weekly flights between Astana and Beijing will increase from two to four.
Moreover additional flights will be launched on the
Astana-Urumqi and the Almaty-Urumqi routes.
During the meeting, the two ministers discussed cooperation in
transit transportation, rail and road transportation, as well as
air transportation.
In addition, they discussed the activity of the Chinese port of Lianyungang, the Khorgos International Center of Boundary Cooperation, located on Kazakh-Chinese border, and the Special Economic Zone Khorgos in Kazakhstan.
Container transit from China to Europe and vice versa through
Kazakhstan is increasing. According to Investment and Development
Ministry, 62,816 containers were transported from China to Europe
through Kazakhstan in January-November 2016.
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev in a message to Kazakh
people in late January set the task to increase the transit
container transportation 7 times by 2020. This aim is consistent
with the goals of China.
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