Rail Terminal Development in Almaty

The Challenge

ALG Terminal in Almaty/Kazakhstan commissioned HPC supported by its project partner Xvise from Austria to provide technical and commercial support in developing a new operations concept for their rail terminal, preceded by a market outlook and cargo forecast.

Tasks Performed

• Evaluated the status quo relating to current operations practices
• Benchmarked existing concept ideas
• Identified drawbacks, potential constraints, and areas for improvement
• Analyzed regional transport corridors, hinterland networks, the macroeconomic background and domestic industry developments
• SWOT analysis, highlighting market-related potentials and risks
• Projected containerized cargo volumes
• Prepared different operations concept options for future volume growth
• Identified handling equipment requirements
• Presented a phasing plan to realize the preferred operations concept

Benefit 

HPC and Xvise helped ALG Terminal to identify their future market potential and developed a new layout and operations concept based on future market trends to cater for increasing cargo traffic.