KAZAKHSTAN Railways (KTZ) has selected KazElectroPrivod (KEP), a joint venture of Alstom and Kamkor, Kazakhstan, in a €90m contract to supply 10,000 point machines over a period of 10 years. Delivery will commence this year.
AN agreement has been signed in the Kazakhstan capital Astana by GE Transportation, the Remlokomotiv subsidiary of Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) and Transmashdiesel to set up a joint venture company to produce GE Evolution series engines.
PRESIDENT Nursaltan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan officially inaugurated a new locomotive manufacturing plant in Astana on December 4, in a ceremony attended by a host of national dignitaries including Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) president Mr Askar Mamin.
THE Export-Import Bank of the United States has signed a $US 425m credit agreement with Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) and its subsidiary Lokomotiv Kurastyru Zauyty (LKZ) to finance the supply of around 200 GE Evolution Series ES44ACi diesel locomotives.
THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the municipal government of Almaty signed a memorandum of understanding on November 7 for the development of a 14km light rail line in Kazakhstan's second largest city.
THE first container train with a CIM/SMGS common consignment note was despatched by Russian Railways Logistics (RZDL) in cooperation with its Chinese subsidiary YuXinOu Logistics on October 31.
THE first of 10 pre-series KZ8A 25kV ac freight locomotives was unveiled today in Belfort, France, by the president of Alstom Transport, Mr Henri Poupart-Lafarge, who was accompanied by the president of Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ), Mr Askar Mamin.
IRJ at InnoTrans 2012: Kazakstan Railways (KTZ) signed a contract today at InnoTrans with GE Transportation to produce a passenger version of GE's Evolution series locomotive at the Lokomotiv Kurastyru Zauyty(LKZ) assembly plant in Astana. LKZ is a subsidiary of KTZ.
BOTH traffic and turnover increased last year for Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ) enabling it to declare a profit of a Tenge 123bn ($US 832m). KTZ also doubled capital investment to Tenge 394bn.
MORE than 23 years after construction began, Kazakhstan's first metro line finally opened on December 1, with the inauguration of Almaty Line 1.