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Kazakhstan looks to the Arctic for a new trade route

Access to the Northern Sea Route could complement Kazakhstan's east-west rail and road infrastructure.

By Malte Humpert, High North News March 5, 2019
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Kazakhstan aims to use the vast Ob-Irtysh river system to gain access the world’s oceans via the Arctic port of Sabetta. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev are scheduled to discuss the project this fall in Omsk.

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