Route · KZ

Shymkent to Aktau

1 operator run this water, from 2 h 22.

Getting from Shymkent to Aktau

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Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Scat Air CIT → SCO 1499 km non-stop 735 in the air 3 h 52 est. rate not held 632 km/h average

Other ways to reach Aktau

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Aktau without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Atyrau – Aktau 58 min Air Astana

Baku – Aktau 59 min Azerbaijan Airlines, Caspian Sea Shipping Company

Tbilisi – Aktau 1 h 12 Scat Air

Yerevan – Aktau 1 h 22 Scat Air

Uralsk – Aktau 1 h 31 Scat Air

Aktobe – Aktau 1 h 34 Scat Air

Moscow – Aktau 2 h 29 Scat Air, Transaero Airlines

Istanbul – Aktau 2 h 48 Air Astana

Almaty – Aktau 3 h 06 Air Astana

Makhachkala – Aktau not held Caspian Maritime Services

And other ways to reach Shymkent

Almaty – Shymkent 1 h 17 Air Astana

Novosibirsk – Shymkent 2 h 38 S7 Airlines

Moscow – Shymkent 3 h 52 Scat Air, Transaero Airlines

St. Petersburg – Shymkent 4 h 36 Japan Asia Airways

Where else these quays go

Also from Shymkent

Almaty · Moscow · Novosibirsk · St. Petersburg

Also from Aktau

Aktobe · Almaty · Atyrau · Baku · Istanbul · Makhachkala · Moscow · Tbilisi · Turkmenbashi · Uralsk · Yerevan

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Shymkent–Aktau crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.