AKTAU International Multimodal Transportation and Logistics Center

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AKTAU International Multimodal Transportation
and Logistics Center

• The biggest Kazakhstans seaport at the Caspian
  sea and
• a cornerstone at transportation corridors
• TRACECA Europe-Caucasus-Asia and NORTH-SOUTH
  CIS-China-Middle East-Africa

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Project location and goal

• Aktau International Multimodal Transportation and
  Logistics Center (AIMTLC) is located behind the
  Aktau International Free Trade Sea Port at the
  Caspian Sea south-eastward from the coastal
  facilities and Aktau city (residential).
• AIMTLC aimed to be a big transportation hub for
  bulk-loading, storage, re-processing of goods for
  export-import and transit operations with sea,
  railroad, car road and airport.
• Goods to be engaged with oil and oil products,
  metals, dry goods.
• Services A, B, C categories warehousing,
  customs clearance, brokerage, multi-modal
  loadings, container terminal, container repair,
  consign\distributors warehouses, rent, service
  (bank, hotel, parking, restaurants) covered with
  high-level IT.

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International transportation corridors

• AIMTLC plays a key role in transportation
  corridors between Europe, Asia and Middle East
  TRACECA and NORTH-SOUTH.
• Since 1993 TRACECA supported by EU Technical
  Assistance program for CIS (TACIS) has included
  Aktau into several projects in view of
  development of logistics centers totaling 9500000
  Euro. Detailed information can be obtained online
  at www.traceca-org.org for projects TA58, IP10,
  TA55 and IP12.
• With growth of Russia, India and China as well as
  the Persian Gulf States and Middle East AIMTLC
  becomes important on the route at the Caspian Sea.

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Project area, cost, investment return and capacity

• Area of the land plot 2 000 000 m2 (200
  hectares)
• Cost approx. of the key-turn development 300
  000 000 USD (1.5 M x 200 Hectares)
• Investment return period approx. 10 years
• Project capacity 2010 3 300 000 ton,
• 2017 5 000 000 ton
• Operation start date 2009, after 2 years of
  construction
• Demand growth for warehousing market annual 20
• Local FMGC market growth annual 25

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Project initiator and investment advantages

• Initiator and owner of the project TSESNA
  Corporation, Astana, Kazakhstan (www.tsesna.kz)
• TSESNA offers to potential investor to bring its
  own engineering for the Project with Feasibility
  Study (e.g. Knight Frank).
• Investment advantages
• strategic location with a key role in TRACECA and
  NORTH-SOUTH
• absence of other logistics centers in the region
  the lowest warehousing coverage (according to EU
  standards it is five times underdeveloped)
• well-suited project for Islamic Financing of
  infrastructure such as SUKUK.
• government support with tax and other incentives
  for investors (Govt has already taken several
  supporting decrees and acts regarding AIMTLC).

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Tax Regime at Special Economic Zone Aktau
International Seaport (Aktau SEZ)

• Corporate Income Tax 0
• Land Tax 0
• Property Tax 0
• VAT 0
• To enjoy tax incentives for Corporate Income,
  Land and Property a company should operate within
  the SEZ under certain conditions (Stipulated in
  the Tax Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  Concerning Taxes and Other Obligatory Payments to
  the Budget)
• 1) not less than 90 per cent of whose aggregate
  annual income is income received (receivable)
  from selling goods of their own production,
  including construction objects, relating to the
  following priority types of activities, approved
  by the Government of Kazakhstan chemical
  industry manufacturing of resin and plastic
  goods manufacturing of other non-metallic
  mineral products metallurgy manufacturing of
  ready-made metal goods manufacturing of machines
  and equipments
• 2) are registered by tax office within the
  territory of the SEZ
• 3) do not have subsidiaries out of the SEZ which
  employ permanent working staff-place, fulfilling
  functions of a legal entity. A permanent working
  staff-place is taken as permanent if it is
  established for the period of more than 1 month.

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Tax Regime at Aktau SEZ (cont.)

• To enjoy tax incentives for Value Added Tax a
  company should operate within the SEZ under
  certain conditions (Stipulated in the Tax Code of
  the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning Taxes and
  Other Obligatory Payments to the Budget)
• It should sell goods within the territory of the
  SEZ which are fully consumed in the course of
  construction and putting into operation of
  facilities of administrative and industrial
  designation in accordance with project-budget
  documentation, intended for the performance in
  the territories of SEZ of the following priority
  types of activities projecting, development,
  implementation, test manufacturing, software
  manufacturing, data bases and apparatuses
  creation of new IT on the basis of artificial
  immune and neuron systems running of RD on
  establishment of and implementation of projects
  in IT manufacturing of machines for processing
  with texts, copying equipment, calculators,
  office machines and equipment as well as for
  addressing and cash-ticketing, computers and
  other equipment for information processing
  manufacturing of electric and radio elements,
  transmitting machines, sound and picture
  receivers, recorders and playback machines
  manufacturing of household electric appliances
  ready-made textile goods, clothes.
• New addition into legislation is upcoming
  currently Government is enlarging number of
  priority activities for granting preferences,
  including transportation and keeping of goods
  warehousing different types of transportation
  activities of land, air and marine vehicles.
• Companies dealing with mining and excise-covered
  goods (alcohol, gasoline, luxuries, etc) can not
  enjoy tax preferences.

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Presentations made and contact point

• Up-to-date several meetings regarding AIMTLC were
  held including with
• - Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA),
  Japan International Cooperation Organization
  (JICO), RPI, Katahira Engineers International
  (for feasibility study)
• - Scott Wilson (a British company experienced in
  engineering, consulting, experience in Hong Kong,
  Jebel Ali. Reg. feasibility study)
• - Mizuho Corporate Bank (a part of Japans
  Mizuho Financial Group. Reg. financing)
• - CapitaLand (Singaporean subsidiary of Temasek
  sovereign fund owns 20 of a Kazakh-Russia
  development company EurasiaLogistics with plan to
  establish the biggest net of A-class warehouses
  in Russia and Kazakhstan, 5 000 000 m2. its
  daughter company Ascott-Somerset-Citadines apart
  hotel operator plans to manage 6 hotels in
  Kazakhstan jointly with TSESNA. Reg. future
  sales).
• - PharmaNiaga (a Malaysian searching for
  warehouses. Reg. sales)
• - Punj Lloyd (engineering and warehousing. Reg.
  sales)
• - CILT Chartered Institute of Logistics
  Transportation (Reg. staff trainings)
• Materials and maps of the AIMTLC can be
  downloaded at aktaumultimodaltlc_at_yahoo.com with
  password development
• Staff in charge Mr. Zeinolla Kalymbetov,
  zeinolla.kalymbetov_at_tsesna.kz, kalymbetov_at_yahoo.co
  m, 3162541_at_mail.ru
• tel [phone], fax [phone], mob
  7 701 3162541