ASTANA, Kazakhstan, November 3. Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ, national company) has approved the Program to Increase the Capacity of the Railway Infrastructure, Trend reports.
The text of the document calls for the execution of actions aimed at removing constraining factors. It is intended to lengthen current and develop additional station tracks, open new separate points, implement automatic blocking, and construct second tracks until 2030. Simultaneously, design and estimate documentation (DED) requires around three to seven percent of the building cost.
To reduce the time and expense of producing DED, the company established a design group comprised of qualified designers.
The design team intends to complete the creation of around ten projects with a positive outcome from the state assessment in the first half of 2024.
Today, the current state of the railway infrastructure and rolling stock is becoming a limiting factor for the stable functioning of the railway.
To ensure the rapidly growing volumes of cargo transportation, the KTZ is already implementing four large infrastructure projects.
Within three years, railway lines will be built in the sections Dostyk-Moyynty, Bakhty-Ayagoz, Darbaza-Maktaaral and a bypass around Almaty with a total length of 1,334 km.
Measures are also being taken to develop single-track sections Zhezkazgan-Zharyk, Kazaly - Arys, Almaty - Altynkol, Aksu - Zhana-Semey, Kandyagash - Tobol.
