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Polish freight operator PKP Cargo is apparently planning another round of collective layoffs before the end of the year, along with changes to how its staff are paid, according to Polish rail media. Responding to the reports, PKP Cargo told the Polish Press Agency that restructuring administrator Paweł Głodek is analy…
Tengrinews.kz – A district court in Kazakhstan's Zhambyl Region has issued an official warning to a local resident over the bullying behavior of his underage son. The incident occurred in September at a school in the Zhualy District. An eighth-grade student arrived late to class, prompting a classmate to mock and humi…
Lobby groups in the north and south of Scotland have emphasised how freight can play a new role in railway development. Campaigns in the North East and the Scottish Borders have both put their cases to the government and to stakeholders at large. The North East lobby group was at the Scottish Parliament last week, whi…
Tengrinews.kz – King Abdullah II of Jordan has arrived in Astana for another official visit. It is far from his first trip to Kazakhstan: over the past two decades, the monarch has visited the country eight times. During that period, the world order has shifted, Astana has transformed, and Kazakhstan itself has change…
Tengrinews.kz – Scammers are sending fake letters to Kazakhstanis on behalf of the National Bank, promising to recover allegedly stolen money or deliver an incoming money transfer. In return, they demand advance payments, sometimes claiming the money is needed to arrange a cash-in-transit vehicle. Scammers promise ref…
Tengrinews.kz – Motor vehicles in Almaty produce around 113,000 tonnes of pollutant emissions annually, accounting for nearly 60 percent of the city's air pollution emissions. Cars are not the only source of air pollution According to Almaty's Department of Ecology and Environment, air pollution is caused not only by …
Medway France is now running MSC’s container trains between the ports of Le Havre and Montoir-de-Bretagne on its own, after more than three months working on the flow alongside Europorte. It is the company’s third regular flow in France, less than a year after it entered the market. MSC’s rail freight arm started the …
At the Shalkiya lead-zinc mine in Kyzylorda Region, engineers have designed a processing plant that could handle four million metric tons of ore a year. To keep it running, a pumping station would send up to 2,400 cubic meters of water back through the plant every hour. Even with that water going round again, the plan…
Central Asian leaders and Jordan’s King Abdullah II met on November 6 to discuss how terrorist groups could use artificial intelligence to recruit members, coordinate their activities, and spread propaganda. At the Aqaba Process summit, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev offered to host a Central Asian office of the U…
Kazakhstan’s exports of sunflower husk pellets reached 63,200 metric tons in the first nine months of 2026, 3.56 times the volume shipped a year earlier. The pellets are made by compressing discarded sunflower seed shells for use as fuel. Export revenue increased by 515% to $3.4 million, according to export figures fr…
Kairat Almaty secured one of their most impressive European results on November 5, holding Italian side Atalanta to a 1-1 draw in Bergamo in the UEFA Conference League. The Kazakh visitors came close to a famous victory after taking the lead early in the second half. Atalanta, winners of the Europa League in 2024, nee…
Kürşad Zorlu, a senior official in Türkiye’s ruling Justice and Development Party, has questioned Russia’s eligibility for observer status in the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), citing its language requirements. At the OTS summit in Ankara on October 30, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed inviting Ru…
Developing the Middle Corridor, a transport route connecting China and Europe through Central Asia, the Caspian Sea, and the South Caucasus, will require at least $25 billion in infrastructure upgrades by 2040. The World Bank estimates that another $30.5 billion will be needed for complementary investments in logistic…
Tengrinews.kz – The US dollar weakened against the Kazakh tenge during trading on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) on November 6. Here's the exchange rate recorded at the end of the trading session. At the close of daytime trading on KASE, the weighted average exchange rate stood at 447.14 tenge per US dollar, dow…
Turkish marine survey specialist DenAr Ocean Engineering Services has been selected by the country’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources to carry out geophysical and geotechnical seabed investigations for Turkey’s first offshore wind development programme. The NCS-01 project covers two areas in the Sea of Marmara…
Women gathered outside a branch of Kazakhstan’s Otbasy Bank in Almaty’s Zhetysu neighborhood early on November 3, hoping to secure mortgages under a program designed to help women buy homes. Some banks drew up waiting lists, which security guards used to control entry, while others argued as the crowd pressed toward t…
The National Bank of Kazakhstan expects inflation to slow in 2027, but less sharply than previously forecast. In September, it raised its forecast to 6.5%–8.5%, up from 5.5%–7.5%, amid concerns about government spending and other pressures. Akylzhan Baimagambetov, the bank’s deputy governor, said on November 5 that th…
Uzbekistan plans to double its annual uranium production to 15,000 metric tons by 2030, up from a projected 7,500 this year, as demand for nuclear fuel grows. Tashkent also wants to expand critical mineral processing to produce more finished goods for export. The development plans , published by the president’s office…
KTZ Express, the freight forwarding subsidiary of Kazakh Railways (KTZ) has organised a container shipment from Kazakhstan to the Mexican Port of Veracruz. KTZ is reaching ever-more destinations across the world “beyond traditional sales markets”. KTZ Express presented the shipment as part of an effort to expand the g…
Greek shipowner Vyron Vasileiadis has firmed up another two VLCCs at China’s Hengli Heavy Industries, doubling Venergy Maritime’s debut supertanker order to four vessels. The Piraeus-based company exercised the options attached to its October contract for two firm 306,000 dwt crude carriers, with all four vessels sche…
Evangelos Marinakis-backed Capital Tankers has secured a 15-month charter for one of its modern suezmaxes in a deal expected to generate between $73.1m and $82.2m in revenue. The Oslo-listed tanker owner said on Friday that its 155,348 dwt Amor has been fixed to an unnamed global energy company, with employment starti…
ČD Cargo has rejected the “simplistic conclusion that rail cannot compete with road”, after shippers interviewed on primetime Czech television said they had switched to trucks on cost and speed. Rail, the operator says, “can offer a competitive solution in terms of price, transport capacity and reliability”, for both …
Tengrinews.kz — The Aqaba Process Summit on “Security in the Field of Artificial Intelligence” is taking place in Astana, according to Akorda. The summit is being attended by President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein of Jordan, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of T…
Time is ticking for the German national rail freight operator DB Cargo. It needs to implement its restructuring programme by 31 December 2026 under a deal with the European Commission. If the operator fails to do so, it could be in serious trouble. The goal is to break even financially. The DB Cargo case in short DB C…
Tengrinews.kz — A 13-year-old boy in Almaty fell from the eighth floor and suffered multiple fractures, brain injuries and damage to internal organs. The child required several operations. The city’s Health Department press service shared details of the incident. Multiple fractures to arms and legs: what happened A 13…
Tengrinews.kz — Scientists have recorded a powerful solar flare. It occurred after a prolonged period of relative calm. “The strongest flare since early October” Details were reported by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the laboratory, an M…
Tengrinews.kz — Organizers of an illegal cryptocurrency exchange operation have been convicted in Kyzylorda Region, according to the Financial Monitoring Agency. How the scheme worked Investigators found that the convicted individuals illegally traded cryptocurrency through Binance’s P2P platform outside the trading v…
Tengrinews.kz — Artificial intelligence (AI) could trigger a pandemic far more dangerous than COVID-19, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on November 4 while speaking at the Future of AI Summit, according to Oninvest. According to Gates, the capabilities of modern AI models are such that “the potential for both ben…
Tengrinews.kz — Kazakhstan is discussing possible changes to its road toll system, with a proposed focus on commercial freight transport. However, there are no plans to change toll conditions for private passenger car owners, citing the government's press service. Who could be affected by the changes The first meeting…
A former Brazilian ocean canoeing champion has taken recycling to a floating extreme, constructing a boat from 230 discarded plastic containers so he can collect even more rubbish from the sea. Marcos Arnhold spent two months building the unusual craft in Guaratuba, southern Brazil, using 125 two-litre plastic bottles…