Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to launch high-speed railway

AKIPRESS.COM - Construction of a high-speed railway is planned from Kazakhstan's Turkestan via Shymkent to Tashkent, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin said.
The high-speed railway will allow to boost tourism, the government's press service cited PM Mamin as saying.
Kazakhstan will launch investment projects for $2.3 million this year, PM Mamin said. They incude ecotourism projects in national parks.
Modernization and construction of railway links will be started to address bottlenecks and to increase throughput capacity of railway transportation from Kazakhstan to China and Uzbekistan, the PM added.