Aktau named Cultural Capital of Turkic world for 2025
The TÜRKSOY organization has made Aktau the Cultural Capital of the Turkic world for 2025. An extensive program of events is planned in the port city on the Caspian coast.
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Aktau hosts first North-South transport forum
Kazakhstan will continue to actively participate in the development of the North-South transport corridor, Kazakh Transport Minister Marat Karabayev said during a speech at the first North-South transport trade and export forum in …
China start trial of Middle Corridor cargo transit
Kazakhstan and China started transporting transit cargo from the Kazakh port of Kuryk to Baku seaport via the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (the …
Kazakh low-cost airline to connect Aktau and Baku with direct flights
Low-cost airline FlyArystan launches direct flights from Aktau to the capital of Azerbaijan. The planes will fly on the route three times a week.
Aktau port increases cargo turnover thanks to oil exports through Azerbaijan
The turnover of cargo between the ports of Aktau and Baku has increased due to the transportation of oil through the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Iranian charter brings 137 tourists to Aktau
Today, the first charter with tourists from Iran has landed in Aktau. The next plane will arrive this weekend. The demand for holidays in Kazakhstan is growing among Iranians.
Road map for development of Middle Corridor route signed in Aktau
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov attended a trilateral meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Transport from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Türkiye in Aktau on November 25, the Azerbaijani …
Iranian air carrier to resume flights to Kazakhstan
Kish Air (Iran) will start operating flights on the Tehran-Almaty and Gorgan-Aktau routes. According to Sputnik Kazakhstan, flights will start operating from April 20 with a frequency of one flight per week on each route. Flights will …
Russia to increase the number of flights with Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan
From December 1, Russia will increase the number of flights with Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. This is reported by the operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus. "It was also decided to increase the number of regular …
Explosion destroys cafe building in Kazakhstan’s Aktau
An explosion destroyed a cafe building in Kazakhstan’s Aktau, the press service of the emergencies department of Kazakhstan’s Mangistau region said. "Reports about an explosion at a cafe in the city of Aktau came at …
Geopolitical competition in Caspian region about more than gas and oil
Geopolitical competition in the Caspian Sea region over oil and natural gas fields, pipelines carrying these hydrocarbons across that body of water, and security measures intended to protect both have attracted the bulk of the attention of the littoral states as well as outside powers in recent years. But intensifying competition in the Caspian over other issues also deserves attention. Three of these many other forms of rivalry have assumed new prominence in the past several weeks, The Jamestown Foundation writes
Coronavirus patients to be placed in Aktau tennis center (VIDEO)
In Aktau (Mangistau region of Kazakhstan), a provisional hospital with 150 places for Covid-19 patients was opened in a tennis center on the beach near the village of Primorsky, Aktau-Lada reports. If the number of patients with …
Baku and Aktau to become digital poles of Caspian region
The Caspian Digital Hub involves the construction of fiber optic links along the bottom of the Caspian Sea
Open skies regime launched in airports of 11 Kazakh cities
The open skies regime has been launched in the airports of 11 cities of Kazakhstan from November 1, 2019, the Kazakh Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development reported. The cities are Nur-Sultan, Shymkent, Aktau, …
Uzbekistan to accelerate Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project
Tashkent has already begun using the BTK to transport its cotton and a number of other export goods
Explosive pyrotechnics seized in Aktau
According to the results of the raid conducted by the Aktau Emergency Management Department in cooperation with the police, dangerous pyrotechnic kits were found and seized on the market of Magash LLP. The pyrotechnics was sold by the …
Lavrov names main achievement of Convention on Legal Status of Caspian
The main achievement of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea was that all the five Caspian states have clearly confirmed their responsibility for everything taking place on the sea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov …
Fifth Caspian Summit in Aktau: view from Iran
The 5th Caspian Summit was held in Aktau yesterday, during which the heads of the Caspian states signed the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, a document that had been prepared for 22 years. Vestnik Kavkaza asked the …
Fifth Caspian Summit in Aktau: view from Kazakhstan
The 5th Caspian Summit was held in Aktau yesterday, during which the heads of the Caspian states signed the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, a document that had been prepared for 22 years. Vestnik Kavkaza asked the …
Russian and Kazakh presidents hold talks in Aktau
Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev following the Fifth Caspian Summit in Kazakhstan, according to the Kremlin website. …
