An expanded board meeting of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan was held in Astana. During the event, the work of the Ministry in 2024 was summarized and plans for 2025 were determined.
The event was attended by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Roman Sklyar, deputies of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Minister of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan Marat Karabayev, representatives of the Administration and Government of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, vice ministers, heads of staff, chairmen of committees, department directors, heads of subordinate organizations of the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Kazakhstan, representatives of local executive bodies.
"In 2024, repair work in the road sector covered a record 12 thousand kilometers, of which 7 thousand kilometers were completed. The main efforts were directed to completing the reconstruction work on the major transit corridors "Almaty - Karaganda" (879 km), "Taldykorgan - Ust-Kamenogorsk" (768 km) and "Aktobe - Atyrau - Astrakhan" (607 km). To date, work on these routes has been completed. In the railway transport sector, the growth in freight traffic amounted to 2% or 303 million tons (2023 - 297.4 million, 2025 - 310). This is a historical maximum. 21 million passengers were transported by railway transport, an increase of 4%. Last year, 185 locomotives, 2,350 freight cars and 143 passenger cars were purchased. The volume of transportation by sea amounted to 7.5 million tons, an increase of 4%. In the civil aviation sector, Kazakhstani airlines transported 14.7 million passengers last year, which is 11% (13.3 million) more than in 2023. Passenger service indicators at airports increased by 14% to 29.7 million people (26.1 million in 2023), cargo handling increased by 18% to 171 thousand tons (145 thousand in 2023). Road transport shows the greatest growth in freight transportation compared to other types of transport. The annual growth dynamics of export-import traffic is more than 20%, and transit traffic is about 40%. At the same time, transit traffic from China has increased by 2 or more times. Last year, we completely transferred permits with China and Uzbekistan to electronic format. As a result, over the past 2 years, the number of flights with Uzbekistan has increased from 6 thousand to 36 thousand, and with China - from 50 thousand to 230 thousand," said Minister of Transport Marat Karabayev.
In his speech, the Minister extensively touched upon the plans for 2025. In particular, this year, the scope of road construction work is expected to reach 13 thousand kilometers. The implementation of new projects with a total length of 1045 kilometers will begin. Including the sections "Aktobe - Ulgaisyn" (234 km), "Karaganda - Zhezkazgan" (572 km), "Atyrau - Dossor" (86 km) and bypasses of the cities of Saryagash (102), Kyzylorda (26 km), Rudny (17 km) and Petropavlovsk (8 km). The construction of the Dostyk-Moyintsy and Almaty bypass railways has been completed, and the construction of the Kyzylorda-Moyintsy facility will begin. This year, 54 stations will be covered by repair and reconstruction works. The construction of a 250 thousand container hub in the Aktau port has been completed and dredging works are underway. 16 new air routes are planned to Rome, Munich, Budapest, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Busan. Budget routes for passengers will expand due to the arrival of 4 new foreign low-cost carriers SpiceJet (India), Eastar Jet and T'way Air (Korea), ThayAirAsia (Thailand). As part of the transition of foreign permit forms to electronic format, human factors and, accordingly, corruption risks have been completely eliminated. Work is already underway to transition to the electronic exchange of foreign permit forms with the Organization of Turkic States (Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan) and the Baltic countries (Russia, Latvia, Lithuania).
Following the results of the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Roman Sklyar gave a number of specific instructions to further improve work in the development of the country's transport and logistics sector.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/transport/press/news/details/948677