Hapag-Lloyd has announced a new service connecting Western Türkiye with the Red Sea, which is expected to start in mid-June.

From 15 June 2024, the German ocean carrier will introduce its new Türkiye Red Sea Express (TRE) with the following port rotation:

Istanbul, Türkiye - Izmit, Türkiye - Aliaga, Türkiye - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Aqaba, Jordan - Istanbul

In May 2024, tariffs for road freight transportation in Kazakhstan increased by 2% compared to May 2023, reported the Bureau of National Statistics.

Tariffs for road transportation of timber cargoes increased the most - by 43.6%.

Tariffs for cargo transportation by sea increased by 9.9% during this period.

Tariffs for air cargo transportation increased by 2.1% over the year.

Including: international - by 2.3%, intra-republican - by 1.8%.

The Bureau of National Statistics of Kazakhstan does not provide data on changes in tariffs for railroad freight transportation.

As part of this project, the first three trucks with a combined weight of 80 tons left the city of Urumqi and will follow the China-Kazakhstan-Azerbaijan-Georgia route, the Kazakhstani Ministry of Transport said.

The Chinese heavy trucks arrived at the Kazakh port of Kuryk and have already loaded onto a ferry for transportation across the Caspian Sea.

“Uzbek Railways” announced rates for transportation of raw vegetables and fruits in refrigerated sections (five wagons with a load of 225 tons) on three routes:

- “Tashkent - Moscow” (3485 km) - $45098

- “Tashkent - Iletsk 1” (1777 km) - $30042.5

- Tashkent - Minsk” (4033 km) - $60647.5

Uzbekistan's national air carrier Uzbekistan Airways will launch a regular flight service between the Uzbek city of Nukus and the former capital of Kazakhstan from June 1, 2024.

The flights will be operated by Airbus A320 airliners twice a week - on Wednesdays and Saturdays.