"KazTransOil" transported more than 18 mln tons of oil in 9 months and got 9.6 mln dollar profit

/IRBIS, Nov.30, 99/ - PRIME-TASS informs that national oil transportation company /NOTC/ "KazTransOil" transported 18.163 mln tons of oil in 9 months of 1998, with the reference to Tuesday's press-release of NOTC. Total oil transportation should reach 28.1 mln tons this year against 24.1 mln in 1998. Turnover of NOTC system in 9 months of this year reached 12,426 mln tons- kilometers and it is planed to increase it up to 16,294 mln tons-kilometers. Corresponding figure for last year is 15,337 mln tons-kilometers. The company offered services for 11.8 bln tenge /about 84.9 mln dollars/ this year so far, and the profits reached 1.3 bln tenge /about 9.6 mln dollars/. Capital investments from the beginning of the year to September amounted to 997 mln tenge /about 7.1 mln dollars/, or 22 percent of the plan. This figure is expected to reach 4.6 bln tenge /about 33 mln dollars/ by the end of this year.