5 corridors linking 16 cities, about 4,500 km measured city to city in straight lines (about 5,400 km built, at a route factor of 1.2), with 5 cross-border links and crossings. Petropavl to Almaty through Astana and Karaganda, Almaty to Shymkent, and Shymkent to Aktobe and Atyrau on the Caspian, linking China at Horgos to Russia at Omsk, Orenburg and Astrakhan, and to Uzbekistan at Tashkent.
The Network Concept
The corridors.
Each corridor is listed below in order of its cities.
MMC Kazakhstan network concept, schematic. Dark lines are corridors; grey lines are neighbouring corridors; gold lines are cross-border links; blue dashed lines are sea crossings; gold dashed lines are mountain tunnels; the wide gold band marks the spines. Routes are indicative.
Routes are indicative. Corridors are drawn city to city, through the cities on the existing railway wherever a line exists: MMC corridors follow those lines, upgrading the line or running above it on viaduct. Where no line exists, the corridor is new build. Final alignments are set at detailed design by terrain survey, geotechnical analysis, environmental and cultural heritage assessment, and agreement between the nations they connect.
KZ-4 Syr Darya: Aktobe – Kyzylorda – Turkistan – Shymkent
KZ-5 Balkhash: Moyynty – Balkhash
Engagement
To initiate the programme in Kazakhstan.
The MMC platform is available to any nation building to the standard. If your government, agency, or capital partner could initiate a project in Kazakhstan: Make contact.
