Heavy equipment for KazMunayGas' Atyrau PE plant ships from Shanghai to Kazakhstan
The initial phase of transporting oversized and heavy equipment for a polyethylene plant in Kazakhstan’s Atyrau region has commenced from Shanghai. The first shipment, destined for the plant’s pyrolysis unit, weighs 11,760 freight tons—equivalent to about 200 railcars—and includes nine major components such as reactors, separators, and columns. Among them is a particularly large wet flare knock-out drum, measuring over 43 meters in length and weighing 347 tons.
The complex logistics route will see the cargo shipped to Türkiye’s Haydarpaşa port, then transferred to river-sea vessels to travel through the Volga-Don Canal, across the Caspian Sea, and ultimately arrive at Kazakhstan’s Yersai port by June 2026. Meanwhile, domestic manufacturing is also underway, with AtyrauNefteMash preparing to deliver additional heavy equipment later this year. The project itself marked a construction milestone on March 31, 2025, when the first foundation piles were installed for the Silleno polyethylene plant in the Atyrau region’s National Industrial Oil and Gas Chemical Technopark.
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