Kazakhstan's Beijing-Brussels caravan initiative highly estimated in Poland

An international conference "On Silk Way Again" dedicated to the first ever truck caravan "Beijing-Astana-Warsaw-Berlin-Brussels" currently passing the territory of Poland has taken place in Warsaw, MFA of RK has advised KZ-today.

The caravan started by participants of the International Road Transport Union's 3rd in Beijing as of 26 September 2005, in which Kazakhstani, Chinese, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Polish transport operators took part. The project of the truck caravan between Asia and Europe was first presented by Maksat Saktaganov, president of International Road Transport Union of RK, and approved by the World Road Transport Organisation,.

Taking into consideration the high commodity turnover dynamics between China, Kazakhstan and the EU countries, the conference participants highly estimated the Kazakhstani initiative of establishing alternative (with regard to sea and railway) transport nodes on the Eurasian space. The participants believe that the Kazakhstani initiative will allow to reduce the time of cargo deliveries from 6 to 2 weeks, increasing the efficiency of services at the international transport market.

The introduction of this alternative traffic between Asia and Europe that will entail the enlargement of the commodity turnover between Kazakhstan and the EU will allow to bolster the image of Kazakhstan as a nodal transit state in Eurasia, the MFA observed.


(Source: Gazeta.KZ)

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