KURYK, KAZAKHSTAN — Kaspi Grain Way LLP has begun shipping from its new grain terminal at Kazakhstan's Port of Kuryk on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea.
The terminal, with an annual throughput capacity of 1 million tonnes, shipped its first cargo of 3,500 tonnes of grain via the port’s No. 4 pier on Nov. 9, according to the Port of Kuryk. The terminal also has a total grain storage capacity of 28,000 tonnes.
The terminal was built as part of Kazakhstan’s 2024-2028 Sea Infrastructure Development Plan and will receive grain from throughout the country. The Kuryk port handles grain, oil products, fertilizers, chemicals and other goods from rail and road to ferry transport.
Wheat is the nation’s largest crop by acreage, accounting for 80% of grain production. Production in 2024-25 is estimated at 15.8 million tonnes, according to a report from the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture. Kazakhstan produces barley, cotton, sunflower seed and rice.
Agriculture is a key part of Kazakhstan’s economic, social and environmental development, according to the World Bank, and the country is Central Asia’s largest grain producer and only significant exporter.
“The dispatch of the first batch of grain crops by Kaspi Grain Way from the berths of the Kuryk port marked an important step in strengthening Kazakhstan’s position in international agricultural markets and opens up new prospects for the development of new transportation routes and diversification of the cargo base in the ports of our country,” the port said.
