January 5, 2022
Live Blog: Kazakhstan
Until we find out what is going on, the best we can do is to gather as much data from as many sources as possible to help us evaluate it. Here is my «data dump»
1. Basic information about Kazakhstan
2. History from 1992
Privatization Galore
3. Recent Events
2021-12-16 - The US Embassy sends a protest alert
US has a bioweapons lab in Kazakhstan
US is Building a Bioweapons lab in Kazakhstan
The president invokes CSTO and requests help from the signatories
Weakness in the BRI
According to railfreight, Kazakhstan is the weakpoint in the corridor
As mentioned, the first trip of the new service took place in December. The train carried 50 40-foot container with various types of cargo. The transit time between the two destinations was 23 days, a pretty long time considering that the train only had to cross Kazakhstan and the Caspian Sea from China.
Here is highlighted one of the main weaknesses of the Trans-Caspian route. The Middle Corridor, as the route is also known, faces most of its bottlenecks when cargo has to travel across the Caspian Sea. In this case, ADY Container indicates that cargo was stranded for several days in the port of Aktau (Kazakhstan) until it crossed the sea to reach Baku. Severe weather conditions were responsible for the delay this time. Nevertheless, it is quite usual for services to get delayed due to the lack of vessels, for instance.
January 5, 2022, 17:31
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