On some roads in Kazakhstan, you have camels crossing, and some routes are sand tracks only. Difficult circumstances for the transport of parts for a compressor station to Bozoi in Kazakhstan – the perfect task for Militzer & Münch.
The gas pipeline will cover a distance of almost 1,500 kilometers, from the west of Kazakhstan to Shymkent in the south. For the gas to travel long distances, compressor stations regulate the pressure. Components for one such station at Bozoi came from Shanghai, Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands.
“This order was quite a challenge,” says Nikolaus Kohler, Regional Managing Director Middle East / Central Asia. “We had to transport five complete compressor units from Europe via Russia to Kazakhstan. We were glad to be able to rely on our strong teams in Germany, Russia, and Kazakhstan.”
A multimodal transport concept was used. Parts from England, the Netherlands and Germany were gathered at Rotterdam, shipped to St. Petersburg, then loaded onto 36 trucks to the Bozoi construction site. Components from China were stored in Shanghai, loaded into 35 containers and sent via rail to Aktobe, Kazakhstan, then by truck to Bozoi.
A route survey conducted months beforehand revealed key challenges: an unpaved service road exclusive to pipeline traffic, and a low-crossing pipeline in the Chromtau region requiring a route detour via Shalkar — approximately 400 kilometers across sandy steppe — using special Kazakh four-wheel drive tractors with higher loading platforms. A bulldozer was carried along as emergency backup. “The cooperation between the teams was perfect,” says Natalie Andriyevskaya, Managing Director Militzer & Münch Kazakhstan.