As of July 26, 2024, since the beginning of the current year on the route of multimodal international freight traffic “China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan” was recorded 100 departures of freight trains, which is 103.94 percent more than a year earlier. This was reported by Urumqi branch of the Corporation “Chinese Railways” /CRC/.

Multimodal transport corridor “China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan” is a logistics highway that passes through China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and operates in the format of mixed freight transportation by road and rail. Containers are first delivered by rail to Kashgar North Station /Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Northwest China/, then exported from China by road through Irkeshtam border crossing point, and finally delivered to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and further to other countries.

With the further implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative, trade cooperation between China and West and Central Asian countries has become increasingly close in recent years. Especially since the beginning of 2024, there has been a rapid increase in the volume of goods transported by rail to Kashgar for transit from the country. By now, the figure has exceeded 100,000 tons, up 53,300 tons from a year earlier.

After the opening of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan multimodal transport corridor in 2020, freight trains started to run along this route in turn from such areas of China as the Guangdong-Syangan-Aomen Greater Bay Area, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Sichuan and Jiangsu provinces. The categories of goods transported have expanded from more than 30 kinds of goods in the beginning, such as clothing and metal tools, to more than 300 kinds now, including new energy vehicles and spare parts.