BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 4. Swiss firms are
thinking about cooperation with Kazakhstan within the transport and
logistics sectors, a spokesperson for the Swiss State Secretariat
for Financial Affairs (SECO) advised Pattern.
He famous that Kazakhstan performs a central function within the improvement
of the Trans-Caspian Worldwide Transport Route (“Center
Hall”), creating new alternatives for cooperation in transport
and logistics. Swiss firms with long-standing experience on this
subject are desperate to contribute to the event of
cooperation.
“Within the railway sector, Switzerland welcomes the partnership
between Stadler Rail and Kazakhstan Railways to provide fashionable
trains and set up a upkeep middle in Astana,” the
spokesperson mentioned.
In accordance with SECO, Switzerland and Kazakhstan keep robust
and dynamic bilateral relations. Kazakhstan is Switzerland’s most
necessary financial accomplice in Central Asia. Swiss firms
understand the nation as a promising progress market on account of its
strategic location between Europe and the Far East, its pure
sources, and fast infrastructure improvement.
“Swiss companies worth a steady and predictable funding
surroundings, together with authorized certainty, mental property
safety, and knowledge safety. Current steps taken by the Kazakh
authorities in these areas are seen very positively in
Switzerland. Swiss firms are intently following Kazakhstan’s
reform agenda launched again in 2022. President Tokayev’s tackle of
8 September 2025, which emphasised industrial diversification,
digitalization, water safety, environmental safety, SME
improvement, and the rule of legislation, units an necessary path for
the nation’s future. Switzerland, with its diversified economic system and
robust SME sector, stands able to cooperate with Kazakhstan to
obtain these formidable objectives,” the spokesperson mentioned.
Furthermore, it was additionally famous that Swiss firms within the fields
of water administration and water infrastructure are very thinking about
sharing their experience and contributing to infrastructure tasks
in Kazakhstan.
“Now we have began cooperating within the space of nuclear vitality by
importing uranium from Kazakhstan. Our firms are thinking about
increasing cooperation within the areas of nuclear waste administration and
nuclear threat insurance coverage. There’s additionally potential in superior digital
applied sciences. Each nations acknowledge the strategic significance of
synthetic intelligence, excessive‑efficiency computing, and safe
digital infrastructure”, he mentioned.
It was famous that joint tasks may deliver modern
options to sectors resembling vitality, logistics, and healthcare,
whereas selling accountable and moral AI requirements.
“Swiss firms are more and more thinking about exporting
agricultural merchandise to Kazakhstan, notably dairy items and
genetics for dairy breeds. A number of Swiss firms are supplying
fertilizers to native farmers. Switzerland is able to deepen
bilateral cooperation to facilitate direct commerce and strengthen the
alternate of experience between the 2 nations,” the SECO
concluded.
