Company goal and strategy
Joint Stock Company «Astyk Trans» — enterprise for railway transportation of grain and other agricultural goods.
Within the framework of bilateral cooperation between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation, the heads of State of Kazakhstan and Russia noted the need to develop cooperation in the field of railways of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation and the development of transit potential of both states.
In this regard, as well as in order to consolidate efforts to transport Kazakh grain cargo and increase the export potential of Kazakhstan, at the meeting — the President of JSC NC "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy" Mamin A.U. and the President of JSC Russian Railways Yakunin V.I., it was decided to create a joint Kazakh-Russian enterprise for railway transportation of grain and other agricultural goods. As part of implementation of this decision in 2013, JSC "Kaztemirtrans", the largest operator of freight car fleet of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a subsidiary of JSC "NC "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy", and JSC "Rusagrotrans", the largest operator in the field of railway transportation of grain and other bulk cargo in Russia, on a parity basis JSC "Astyk Trans"was created.
The main activity of JSC "Astyk Trans" is operation of specialized rolling stock for transportation of grain, provision of freight forwarding services for transportation of grain in intra-republican and international communications.
The total car fleet managed by JSC "Astyk Trans" is about 5,000 grain wagons, which allows transportation of 5.5 million tons of grain per year. At the same time, the Company has the opportunity to increase production capacity by attracting an additional fleet of wagons to meet the increasing needs of the agro-industrial complex of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the railway transportation of grain.
In the future, JSC "Astyk Trans" sets itself the task of developing multimodal transportation of grain cargoes using routing technology.
"In accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 1141 dated December 30, 2016 "On certain issues of privatization for 2016-2020", 50% of shares of JSC "Astyk Trans" owned by the joint stock company "Kaztemirtrans" was put up for sale by auction. According to the auction results, Joint Stock Company Rusagrotrans was recognized as the winner of the auction and the sole shareholder of JSC Astyk Trans.
In 2019, JSC Rusagrotrans sold 100% of the shares of Astyk Trans JSC to MALESTO INVESTMENTS.
The development strategy of JSC "Astyk Trans" provides for:
- Development of freight forwarding activities, freight forwarding, including in the implementation of route transportation, in all territories, improving the quality and expanding the range of services;
- Development of multimodal transportation of grain cargoes, use of the entire transport complex of the country in order to reduce the delivery time of goods and optimize existing logistics routes;
- Implementation of a high level of corporate governance of the Company;
- Implementation and development of a corporate information management system for implementation of effective financial and economic activities, operational activities, establishment of external and internal information communications;
- Development and improvement of the regional network, national and international representative offices;
Objectives
- Consolidation of efforts to meet the needs of the agro-industrial complex of Kazakhstan with railway rolling stock;
- Expansion of the sphere of transport services in the agricultural cargo market;
- Development of transit traffic;
- Improvement of the operational process of transportation and expanding the range of logistics services;
- Expansion and modernization of the fleet of wagons to meet the increasing demand for transportation of Kazakh grain;
- Implementation of an effective tariff policy.
