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Almaty controls 74% of Kazakhstan's banking assets, hosts the national stock exchange, and serves as the operational headquarters for the country's most valuable technology...
Shymkent's oil refinery is no longer the ageing Soviet era facility that defined it for decades. Following a $1.86 billion modernisation completed in December 2022,...
Shymkent's food processing sector received KZT 89.4 billion ($190 million) in fixed capital investment in 2023, a 12% year on year increase. Yet 70% of the machinery inside its...
Shymkent sits 12 kilometres from the busiest commercial border crossing between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, at the intersection of the Western Europe Western China transport...
Kostanay Region produced roughly a quarter of Kazakhstan's total grain output last year. The agricultural infrastructure behind that output depends on a network of metalworking...
Kostanay handles roughly 3.5 to 4 million tonnes of grain per year through its rail connections to Russia and beyond. It is the primary logistics gateway for northern...
Aktau International Sea Port handled 17.8 million tonnes of cargo in 2023. By 2026, KTZ Express targets 25 million tonnes. The ferries are being upgraded, the berths are being...
Aktau sits on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, a city of roughly 190,000 people that handles 18.4 million tonnes of cargo per year and anchors a $680 million oilfield...
Caspi Cement's kilns in the Shetpe district run 12 hour shifts instead of continuous operation during peak summer months. The constraint is not demand. Demand pushed regional...
Aktobe's ferroalloy plants are paying retirement age Russian engineers 2.5 times the standard regional salary on three month rotational contracts to keep submerged arc furnaces...
Aktobe Oblast's oil production has fallen steadily for seven years. Its share of Kazakhstan's national output dropped from 8.2% in 2018 to approximately 6.8% by late 2024....
Aktobe's rail hub processed roughly 30 million tonnes of freight in 2024. Transit volumes through the region grew by nearly 20% year on year, driven by sanctioned trade...
Almaty controls 74% of Kazakhstan's banking assets, hosts the national stock exchange, and serves as the operational headquarters for the country's most valuable technology...
Almaty processed 74,300 tonnes of air cargo in 2023, handles roughly 75% of Kazakhstan's total air freight volume, and captures an estimated 55% of all domestic e commerce...
Almaty's technology sector grew revenue by 25 to 30 per cent in 2024. Wage inflation for senior engineers ran at 15 to 20 per cent annually. And the city absorbed an estimated...
Astana's financial centre has a regulation problem that most observers have diagnosed backwards. The Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) operates under English common...
Between 2022 and 2024, approximately 4,000 Russian IT specialists relocated to Astana. In any normal talent market, an influx of that scale would ease hiring pressure. Salaries...
Astana's construction sector is in the middle of an unusual contradiction. The government has committed 1.2 trillion KZT ($2.4 billion) to transport and utility projects in the...
The Tengiz Future Growth Project added 260,000 barrels per day of production capacity when it came online in September 2024. It was the largest single industrial investment in...
The Tengiz Future Growth Project reached mechanical completion in late 2024. By the numbers, this was a workforce event of considerable scale: an estimated 8,000 to 10,000...
Atyrau shed more than 20,000 construction jobs in 2024 as the Tengiz Future Growth Project reached completion. Regional media covered the contraction as a downturn. Recruitment...
Karaganda Oblast entered 2026 with more than two thousand unfilled metalworking and equipment repair vacancies. At the same time, almost one in ten of the region's young people...
The Central Karaganda Coal Basin holds approximately 50 billion tonnes of proven bituminous coal reserves. It produces roughly 45% of Kazakhstan's coking coal output, feeds the...
Karaganda's rail freight sector is estimated to grow by 3 4% through 2025. That figure tells you almost nothing useful. Behind it sit two entirely different markets moving in...
Kostanay Region produced roughly a quarter of Kazakhstan's total grain output last year. The agricultural infrastructure behind that output depends on a network of metalworking...
Kostanay handles roughly 3.5 to 4 million tonnes of grain per year through its rail connections to Russia and beyond. It is the primary logistics gateway for northern...
Kostanay Oblast produced roughly 6 million tonnes of grain in the 2024 harvest cycle. It accounts for more than a fifth of Kazakhstan's total grain output and up to 30% of its...
Shymkent's oil refinery is no longer the ageing Soviet era facility that defined it for decades. Following a $1.86 billion modernisation completed in December 2022,...
Shymkent's food processing sector received KZT 89.4 billion ($190 million) in fixed capital investment in 2023, a 12% year on year increase. Yet 70% of the machinery inside its...
Shymkent sits 12 kilometres from the busiest commercial border crossing between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, at the intersection of the Western Europe Western China transport...
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