Located on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, the Aktau International Sea Trade Port is the only maritime gate of land-locked Kazakhstan enabling transportation of dry cargoes, grain, crude oil and petroleum products by sea. Situated at the crossroad of the international transport corridors such as the Europe – Caucasus – Asia Transport Corridor and the International North – South Transport Corridor, the Aktau seaport provides international shipping and ensures access to the European and the Middle Eastern countries. pean and the Middle Eastern countries. The seaport of Aktau, currently managed by the national company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), is an important component in the development of the multimodal transport chain, which is to be formed by Kazakhstan in order to realize its transit potential at full capacity. Therefore, it is quite natural that the main aim of the State Program for the Development and Integration of Infrastructure of the Transport System of Kazakhstan up to 2020 is to support the improvement of cargo flows between the so-called eastern and western gates of Kazakhstan, namely, the Khorgos dry port and the Aktau seaport.
Lydiya Parkhomchik (nee Timofeyenko) was born on February 9, 1984 in Zelenodolsk city, located at the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia). Since 1986 she became resident of the Republic of Kazakhstan. She graduated the high school in 2001 and at the same year she admitted to Abylai khan Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages. She graduated from International Relations Department with specialization of analyst with knowledge of a foreign language in 2006 and after that started to work as a lecturer at the Chair of International Relations of KazUIR & WL.