Russian Railways resumed accepting sawn timber for export shipments through Kazakhstan

As TASS reports based on the information obtained from the press office of Russian Railways, the company resumed accepting sawn timber for export transportation by rail through Kazakhstan.

As the Group notes, the measures adopted by the government and aimed at supporting exports made it possible to transport timber products by rail through the Russian-Chinese border crossings as well as through the Russian-Kazakhstan ones to be then further transited to China and other countries.

Government Decree No. 2552 dated December 30, 2022, amending the rules for the export of certain types of products, came into force on January 31.