Qasaqstan Temir Scholy

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Qasaqstan Temir Scholy

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legal form Closed joint stock company
founding January 31, 1997
Seat Nur-Sultan , Kazakhstan
management
Number of employees 146,449 (Jan 1, 2011)
sales 913.1 billion tenge (2017)
Branch Transport and logistics
Website www.railways.kz
As of August 24, 2018

Qasaqstan Temir Scholy ( Kazakh Қазақстан темір жолы (ҚТЖ) , Russian Казахстанские железные дороги (КЖД) Kasachstanskije schelesnyje dorogi , English Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) ) is the national railway company of Kazakhstan , based in only Sultan .

Key data

Route network 2017
The Railways Building (left) has been the headquarters of KTZ since 2009

The KTZ route network covers around 16,000 km and is built in Russian broad gauge . 4,800 km are double-track , 4,200 km are electrified . The importance of rail traffic in Kazakhstan is high: 52% of passenger and 49% of freight traffic are carried out by rail. The KTZ employs around 137,000 people.

The company's turnover in the 2010 financial year was around 584 billion tenge .

history

prehistory

The first railway line in Kazakhstan was the 369 km long meter- gauge narrow - gauge railway from Pokrovskaya Sloboda to Uralsk, opened in 1893/94 . 113 km of the route ran in Kazakhstan. Later, a 190 km long section of the Trans-Siberian Railway ran through Kazakhstan. From 1904 to 1906 the line from Orenburg to Tashkent was built , and from 1914 to 1924 the Semiretschenskaya Railway from Aris to Pischpek , later part of the Turksib . In 1915 the Chelyabinsk - Qostanai railway line was built, and from 1915 to 1917 the Altai Railway ( Novosibirsk - Semipalatinsk ), 122 km of which runs across Kazakhstan. By 1930 the Turksib was built with a length of 1,444 km.

At the time the railway was built, Kazakhstan first belonged to the Russian Empire , then to the Soviet Union . Routes did not have to take into account the - at that time internal - external border of Kazakhstan and were laid for direct connections between the Russian centers and the agricultural regions of Kazakhstan. In the times of the Soviet Union, the route network operated in Kazakhstan was operated by three railway departments - relatively independent in the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the now international borders cut these railway lines . The network in the national territory of Kazakhstan was inadequately tailored to the needs of the new state: through trains now ran as transit trains across foreign territory, border controls extended travel times and the travelers required passports . This deficit could only be remedied by building additional routes (see “Infrastructure” below).

Foundation of the KTZ

The company "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy National Company" JSC (KTZ NC JSC) was established on 31 January 1997th It has been a closed stock corporation since 2004 . 100 percent of the shares are owned by the Kazakh state company Samruk-Kazyna .

KTZ

Infrastructure

From the independence of Kazakhstan to 2017, 2,500 km of new railway lines were built. From 2008 to 2016, 4,700 km of the route were also rehabilitated. The main new lines are:

Other sections of the route will be double-tracked, for example between Almaty and Shu (110.7 km), the train stations Almaty-1 and Almaty-2 (8.5 km) and a bypass around Almaty (78 km). A consortium was formed with Siemens to electrify further lines. A rail connection to the port of Kurik on the Caspian Sea (14 km) is also planned.

vehicles

In 2006, the KTZ ordered a total of 310 locomotives from the Evolution series from the US company General Electric . The delivery of the first copies began in March 2009.

In February 2009, Asqar Mamin and the CEO of Siemens , Peter Löscher , signed a contract for the delivery of 22 electric locomotives of the Sino-German KZ4A series between 2009 and 2010.

In July 2009, the company announced that it would invest 5.5 trillion tenge in modernizing the Kazakh Railroad by 2020 . In the course of the modernization, 512 new locomotives should also be purchased.

In October 2010, 200 electric KZ8A freight locomotives and 95 KZ4AT express locomotives were ordered by a consortium in which KTZ Alstom and Transmashholding are also involved. The delivery of the locomotives, most of which are finally assembled in a new plant in Nur-Sultan, is expected to extend from 2012 to 2021.

From 2008 to 2016, 1,000 locomotives, 37,500 freight cars and 1,500 new passenger cars were purchased. At the same time, an in-house industry for the production of corresponding vehicles was set up.

traffic

All major cities in the country are connected to 14 lines by express trains.

A number of Talgo trains with an expanded profile for broad-gauge railways have been operating in international passenger transport since 2017 . The trains are (theoretically) 200 km / h fast and also approved for the railways in Russia , Belarus and Kyrgyzstan . Their air conditioning is designed for outside temperatures from -50C to + 45C. Three classes are offered: two-bed compartments with their own wet room, two-bed compartments with washbasins in the compartment and four-bed compartments. The following connections are offered:

  • The international passenger train No. 1/2 between Almaty and Tashkent . It runs twice a week in one direction. He needed for the 964 km long route schedule 16½ hours. Intermediate stops are: Otar , Schu, Taras , Schymkent and Saryaghasch .
  • The Tulpar-Talgo between Nur-Sultan and Oral since the end of September 2017, travel time 26 hours, 14 minutes. The train runs alternately every two days
  • the Almaty – Oral connection, which takes just over 37 hours for the route.
  • The Almaty – Saratov connection , which takes the train just under 41 hours.

There is also a sleeper connection to Moscow .

In international freight transport, the KTZ sees itself as a hub between China, Russia, Iran and, on a larger scale, between Europe and East Asia . The focus here is particularly on container traffic and block trains . In cross-border traffic with China, rail will transport almost 11 million tons of goods in 2017 .

The KTZ also operates ships on the Caspian Sea . Their number is to be increased to 20 by 2020.

subsidiary company

KTZ has 21 subsidiaries . The Lokomotiv JSC company operates the locomotives , the Kaztemirtrans company operates the railroad cars . Kaztransservice are active in freight transport. Transtelecom is responsible for the modernization of the telecommunications network of Kazakhstan Temir Scholy. Other subsidiaries are Temirsholsu , Temirsholshylu and Temirzhol zhondeu . The company is also involved in the Yuxinou and United Transport and Logistic Company (UTLC) joint ventures . The latter wants to offer regular container trains between Europe and China.

literature

  • NN: 20 Years in OSJD: History of Development of "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy National Company" JSC . In: OSJD Bulletin 3/2017 , pp. 10-19.

Web links

Commons : Kazakhstan Temir Scholy  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ The addition "JSC" is the abbreviation for the legal form of the "closed stock corporation".
  2. ↑ A “closed stock corporation” is a legal form that exists in some of the successor states of the Soviet Union. As a rule, they are stock corporations, all of which are state-owned.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KTZ: Годовой отчет за 2010 год (Russian, PDF; 2.8 MB)
  2. ↑ Consolidated Financial Statements KTZH 2017 , accessed on August 24, 2018 (English, PDF).
  3. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 10.
  4. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 11.
  5. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 11.
  6. ↑ NN: 20 Years , pp. 10,12.
  7. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 13.
  8. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 14.
  9. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 13.
  10. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 13.
  11. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 13.
  12. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 12.
  13. ^ JSC "NC" KTZ "and" Siemens AG "company have signed an agreement establishing a joint venture
  14. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 12.
  15. ↑ Business Wire : GE Transportation delivers 3,000th GE Evolution® series locomotive to Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ)
  16. ↑ KTZ website: MEETING OF “KAZAKHSTAN RAILWAYS” JSC & “SIEMENS AG”
  17. ↑ Silk Road Intelligencer: Kazakhstan Temir Zholy presents $ 36.5 billion modernization program ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / silkroadintelligencer.com
  18. ↑ Kazakhstan entrusts the modernization of its rail industry to KTZ and Alstom-Transmashholding ( Memento of the original of November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alstom.com
  19. ^ To the future - on new locomotives
  20. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 14.
  21. ↑ NN: 20 Years , pp. 14, 18.
  22. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 18.
  23. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 18.
  24. ^ NN: Inauguration of the fast-speed train "Tulpar-Talgo" on the route Astana-Uralsk . In: OSJD-Bulletin 5/2017, p. 74.
  25. ^ NN: Inauguration of the fast-speed train "Tulpar-Talgo" on the route Astana-Uralsk . In: OSJD-Bulletin 5/2017, p. 74.
  26. ^ NN: Inauguration of the fast-speed train "Tulpar-Talgo" on the route Astana-Uralsk . In: OSJD-Bulletin 5/2017, p. 74.
  27. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 14ff.
  28. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 17.
  29. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 16.
  30. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 12.
  31. ↑ NN: 20 Years , p. 17.