Kazakhstan to China Freight Forwarding

China is Kazakhstan's largest trading partner, and the flow east is not only oil and gas in pipelines. Behind the pipelines runs a container and wagon trade that a forwarder can actually book: wheat, barley, flour and flax seed to Chinese mills and crushers; copper cathodes and concentrates, zinc and ferrochrome to smelters; beef, mutton and honey under bilateral veterinary protocols; wool and hides. All of it crosses two rail gateways — Dostyk/Alashankou and Altynkol/Khorgos — where 1520 mm Kazakh track meets 1435 mm Chinese track and every load is transferred, plus a handful of road crossings led by Nur Zholy at Khorgos. The corridor is short on the map and long in paperwork: China's import regime for food, grain and minerals is registration-driven, and a shipment that arrives at Alashankou without the right approvals in place does not enter.

Our people on this lane:Foshan, ChinaAlmaty, Kazakhstan

Services Available on This Route

AGF Advantage on This Lane

This is the one lane where AGF has people at both ends of the border. In Almaty, DDC — our authorized representative in Kazakhstan — handles collection, Kazakh export formalities, phytosanitary and veterinary certificates, and the rail or road booking to the gateway. In Foshan, our own office is on the Chinese side of the same trade: we work with the importer on GACC registrations, quarantine permits and the customs declaration, and we can arrange onward rail, road or coastal delivery from Xinjiang to any Chinese city. Between the two we manage the border transfer itself — the wagon or container transload at Dostyk or Altynkol — which is where most delays on this corridor are born. And because we book the return direction every week, Chinese consumer goods and machinery westbound, we can often pair a Kazakh export with equipment that would otherwise reposition empty.

Key Ports & Airports

Frequently Asked Questions