Transport in Kazakhstan - Rail Transport in Kazakhstan, Rapid Transit in Kazakhstan, Road Accident Deaths in Kazakhstan, Roads in Kazakhstan (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Rail transport in Kazakhstan, Rapid transit in Kazakhstan, Road accident deaths in Kazakhstan, Roads in Kazakhstan, Eurasian Land Bridge, Dzungarian Gate, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Sibirjak, Qazaqstan Temir Zholy, European route E40, Baku Initiative, Trans-Caspian railway, Turkestan-Siberia Railway, New Eurasian Land Bridge, Anatoly Khrapaty, TRACECA, Vehicle registration plates of Kazakhstan, Trans-Aral Railway, Alashankou, European route E38, Bekzat Sattarkhanov, Railway stations in Kazakhstan, Almaly, Raiymbek batyr, Alatau, Zhibek Zholy, Tulpar, Abay, European route E123, European route E018, Astana Metro, European route E127, Aircraft Repair Plant No 405. Excerpt: The Eurasian Land Bridge, sometimes called the New Silk Road, is a term used to describe the rail transport route for moving freight and/or passengers overland from Pacific seaports in Siberia and China to seaports in Europe. The route, a transcontinental railroad and rail land bridge, currently comprises the Trans-Siberian Railway, which runs through Russia and is sometimes called the Northern East-West Corridor and the New Eurasian Land Bridge or Second Eurasian Continental Bridge, running through China and Kazakhstan. As of November 2007, about 1% of the $600 billion in goods shipped from Asia to Europe each year were delivered by inland transport routes. Completed in 1916, the Trans-Siberian connects Moscow with Russian Pacific seaports such as Vladivostok. From the 1960s until the early 1990s the railway served as the primary land bridge between Asia and Europe, until several issues caused the use of the railway for transcontinental freight to dwindle. One issue is the railways of the former Soviet Union (USSR) use a wider rail gauge than most of the rest of Europe and China. Recently, however, the Trans-Siberian has regained ground as a viable land r...