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Trans-Kazakh Railway on the Great Silk Road

Kazakhstan intends carrying out the project on construction of new Trans-Kazakh trunk railway which is to link the countries of Asian-Pacific region with the main markets of Europe, Russia and Middle East.

The estimated cost of the project is 3.5 billion USD. This project, proposed by Kazakhstan, was supported by transport authorities of China, Iran, and Turkey. The project provides for building across the territory of Kazakhstan of a railway with a gauge narrower than that accepted in the country. Thus this new gauge will meet the Chinese and European standards, and the railway carriages will be crossing the frontiers of the states from the Pacific coastline to the Atlantic Ocean and backwards without cargo reloading or rearranging the wheel sets. It will enable cutting down of transit time and at the same time will considerably raise the competitiveness of the route.

New Trans-Kazakh railway will start from Druzhba Junction on the boundary with China and will stretch to the sea port Aktau on the Caspian Sea. From here the train carriages will be ferried to the Iranian ports.

There are also business prospects for introduction of overland transportation, provided a railway is built along the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. Under this project it will become possible to link the Trans-Kazakh railway with the Iranian railway network via the territory of Turkmenistan.

The Kazakh-Chinese frontier railway crossing Druzhba-Alashankou, which connects China and Europe by transit railway running across the territory of Kazakhstan, is one of the most important railway junctions from the point of view of international transit communications. The railway crossing was built in the Junghar Gates - the natural passage between mountain ranges. For centuries through this passage there ran the famous Great Silk Road.

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Uzbekistan is located in the central part of Central Asia, between two great rivers the Amudarya and the Syrdarya. A combination of plains and mountains characterizes the country landscape. The plateau Ustyurt, the old bed of the river Amudarya, the Kizilkum desert, Karshy steppe are mixed here with Western Tien Shan, Ugam, Pskem, Chatkal, Turkestan, Zarafshan Mountain Ranges and fertile valleys of the Fergana and Samarkand Basin.

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