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Т.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Yerimpasheva</surname><given-names>A. T.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>к.э.н, ассоциированный профессор </p><p>г. Алматы </p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>c.e.s., associate professor </p><p>Almaty </p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">aidayerimpasheva@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9401-1573</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Таракбаева</surname><given-names>Р. Е.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Tarakbaeva</surname><given-names>R. E.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>к.т.н., ассоциированный профессор </p><p>г. Алматы </p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>c.t.s., associate professor </p><p>Almaty </p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">raushan_29@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3738-8446</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Люй</surname><given-names>Чжилэй</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Lyu</surname><given-names>Zhilei</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>докторант </p><p>г. Алматы </p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD candidate </p><p>Almaty </p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">lyuy_chzhiley2@live.kaznu.kz</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0284-5667</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Браувайлер</surname><given-names>Х. К.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Brauweiler</surname><given-names>H. Ch.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>д.э.н., профессор </p><p>г. Цвиккау </p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>d.e.s., professor </p><p>Zwickau </p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">christian.brauweiler@whz.de</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru">КазНУ им. аль-Фараби<country>Казахстан</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en">Al-Farabi Kazakh National University<country>Kazakhstan</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-2"><aff xml:lang="ru">Университет «Туран»<country>Казахстан</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en">Turan University<country>Kazakhstan</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-3"><aff xml:lang="ru">Западно-Саксонский университет Цвиккау<country>Германия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en">West Saxon University of Applied Sciences of Zwickau<country>Germany</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>25</day><month>03</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>0</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>183</fpage><lpage>196</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Еримпашева А.Т., Таракбаева Р.Е., Люй Ч., Браувайлер Х.К., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Еримпашева А.Т., Таракбаева Р.Е., Люй Ч., Браувайлер Х.К.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Yerimpasheva A.T., Tarakbaeva R.E., Lyu Z., Brauweiler H.C.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://vestnik.turan-edu.kz/jour/article/view/5224">https://vestnik.turan-edu.kz/jour/article/view/5224</self-uri><abstract><p>В статье рассматривается стратегическое партнерство в развитии системы евразийских трансконтинентальных транспортных коридоров, а также в Республике Казахстан и Китайской Народной Республике. Центральным звеном является казахстанская часть Среднего коридора (Trans-Caspian International Transport Route), представляющая собой мультимодальный маршрут, который соединит рынки Китая и Европы через территорию Казахстана и Каспийское море. Цель работы заключается в выявлении механизмов инфраструктурной синергии и факторов, определяющих устойчивость коридора, на основе анализа данных Всемирного банка (WITS и Logistics Performance Index), аналитических материалов международных организаций и научных публикаций, индексируемых Scopus. В статье обосновывается, что инвестиции в “физическую” инфраструктуру – железные дороги, порты и терминалы – обеспечивают долгосрочный экономический эффект только при их одновременном развитии торгами сопутствующих продуктов, цифровой интеграции процедур и институтов коридорного управления. Показано, что ключевым ограничением Среднего коридора остается высокая вариабельность сроков и стоимости доставки, сосредоточенная в интермодальных узлах и на трансграничных переходах. В этой связи предложена сервисная модель развития коридора, в которой приоритеты формулируются на основе показателей надежности логистического сервиса “end-to-end” и трансформации транзитных узлов в логистико-индустриальные кластеры. Практическая значимость исследования заключается в формировании рекомендаций по инвестиционной политике Казахстана и форматам кооперации с Китаем, направленных на снижение задержек, повышение предсказуемости перевозок и рост добавленной стоимости внутри страны.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article examines the strategic partnership in the development of the Eurasian transcontinental transport corridor system, as well as in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the People’s Republic of China. Special focus has been placed on the Kazakhstani section of the Middle Corridor (Trans-Caspian International Transport Route) – a multilateral, multimodal route connecting Chinese and European marketplaces through Kazakhstan and the Caspian Sea. The aim of the work is to determine how the mechanisms of synergy of infrastructure (infrastructure synergies) and factors defining corridor sustainability are determined using World Bank data (WITS, Logistics Performance Index), analytical material of international organizations, and scientific papers registered in Scopus. The article states that “physical” investments in railway, port, and terminal infrastructure can only yield long-term economic benefits if they are accompanied by trade facilitation, the electronic integration of all procedures, and the formation of institutional corridor governance structures. It has also been demonstrated that the primary restriction in the Middle Corridor is the extreme variability in transit times and costs; this restriction occurs in the majority of cases at intermodal nodes and border crossing points. Therefore, the authors propose a framework for developing corridors based on services, in which priorities are established end-to-end using indicators of logistics service reliability, and transit nodes are converted into logistics and industrial clusters. The practical importance of the research lies in substantiating the direction for Kazakhstan’s investment policies and forms of cooperation with China to reduce delays, increase predictability, and increase domestic value-added.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>инвестиции</kwd><kwd>транспортные коридоры</kwd><kwd>сухие порты</kwd><kwd>мультимодальная логистика</kwd><kwd>торговое содействие</kwd><kwd>цифровизация</kwd><kwd>устойчивое развитие</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>investments</kwd><kwd>transport corridors</kwd><kwd>dry ports</kwd><kwd>multimodal logistics</kwd><kwd>trade facilitation</kwd><kwd>digitalization</kwd><kwd>sustainable development</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Du B., Juman J., Makulova A.T., Khamzayeva A.V., Zhai X. 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