OREANDA-NEWS. Delegation of «China COSCO Shipping Corporation ltd», headed by Deputy Director General Huang Xiaowen visited the facilities of SEZ "Khorgos - Eastern Gate".

The guests toured the Altynkol station, a dry port infrastructure, logistics and industrial zones of SEZ "Khorgos - Eastern Gate". They also got acquainted with the process of reloading containers from narrow chinese rail track (1,435 mm) to wide kazakhstani (1,520 mm) at the dry port.

Representatives of the «China COSCO Shipping Corporation ltd» noted the importance of strategic cooperation with JSC "NC" KTZ ".

Deputy General Director of "SEZ" Khorgos - Eastern Gate" Hisham Belmashi made a presentation of a transport and logistics hub. In particular, it was noted that time of trains processing much reduced on two of the Kazakh-Chinese boundary crossings Dostyk-Alashankou and Altynkol-Horgos, as well as increased speed of trains on the following transit due to the commissioning of new railway lines.