By Madina Usmanova

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ASTANA, Kazakhstan, September 22. Kazakhstan is
seeking to expand its transport and logistics sector, with the
Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (Middle Corridor)
offering significant opportunities, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
said at a meeting with the representatives of the American business
in New York, Trend

“We highly value Wabtec’s key role in advancing our engineering
and railway transport sectors,” Tokayev stated. “In partnership
with this company, Kazakhstan is building not only physical
networks but also intelligent, data-driven integrated transport
corridors. Today, we witnessed the signing of a new agreement with
Wabtec worth over $4 billion, which will significantly strengthen
our cooperation with the United States in transport.”

The president also highlighted the country’s aviation sector,
noting that flagship carriers Air Astana and SCAT operate Boeing
aircraft, forming the backbone of Kazakhstan’s civil aviation
fleet. “We are expanding cooperation with Boeing and hope to
acquire additional aircraft in the coming years,” he added.