Hundreds of grain trucks have accumulated at Almaty stations in Kazakhstan, the situation is critical, and a ban has been introduced

The situation with the accumulation of grain freight cars at the entrance to the Almaty hub was called critical. The national railway carrier of Kazakhstan, KTZ, has introduced a temporary ban on accepting cargo classified as “grain,” the APK News agency reports. As stated in the KTZ document, which was provided to us by participants in the grain industry, the National Carrier introduced a ban from July 17 to July 22 inclusive. “Due to the continued critical situation at the unloading of grain cargo at the stations of Aksenger, Almaty-1,2, Bayserke, Burundai, Zhetygen, Zhety-Su, Kairat, Medeu, Chemolgan, which led to the accumulation of cargo of more than 500 cars and negatively affects the train situation of the Almaty hub, it was ordered to prohibit the acceptance for transportation and redirection of the cargo nomenclature “grain”, that is, wheat grain, bean grain, pea grain, corn grain, oilseeds, malt in grain, oats, lentils, barley, - destination at Aksenger station , ...