RZD reduces passenger fares to Kazakhstan

August 7, Minsk / Olga Belyavskaya - BELTA /. The Belarusian Railway will reduce fares for passenger transportation to Kazakhstan from August 11, the head of the passenger service department of Belarusian Railway, Andrey Kashko, told a BELTA correspondent. This measure is taken to increase the competitiveness of railway transport. "Fares for passenger travel in carriages and trains of the Belarusian Railway, following through the territory of Russia in transit, will be reduced," the specialist said. "Thus, the cost of travel from Minsk to Astana will decrease by 18.6%, or approximately by Br110 thousand." Andrey Kashko noted that one compartment carriage from Minsk and Brest is dispatched to Astana every Tuesday, and one carriage from Minsk is dispatched on Saturdays. For the first half of this year, 2.5 thousand passengers were transported to Kazakhstan in the carriages of the Belarusian Railway. The Belarusian Railway carries out about 75% of all freight and about 50% of passenger transportation in the republic. Today, passenger railway service connects Belarus with Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, Varna, Bucharest, Vienna, Budapest, as well as the capitals and administrative centers of Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, and Kazakhstan. -0-