Tankers and passenger ships and cargo navigate the river between April and October, when it freezes. Omsk, which houses the headquarters of state-owned Irtysh shipping functions as the largest river port in western Siberia. Large hydro plants in Ust-Kamenogorsk and Bakhtarminsk use the Irtysh near the border between Kazakhstan and China. Deepest lock in the world with a drop of 42 meters, allowing river traffic to bypass the dam in Ust-Kemenogorsk.The north side of the river, turning the proposals discussed at length in 1960 and 1970, would see the direction of the flow and distribution of water in the Irtysh facing Central Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Although these giant water supply systems are not taken, the Irtysh-Karaganda Canal lower irrigation (in Russian: Канал Иртыш - Караганда) was built between 1962 and 1974 to supply water to the arid steppes of Kazakhstan and one of most important industrial centers, Karaganda. In 2002, the pipeline was built to provide water channels of the river Ishim Kazakh capital of Astana and.
In the 2000s, projects to divert large quantities of water Irtysh in China, as the proposed Black Irtysh - Canal in Karama, was sentenced by Kazakh and Russian environmentalists.
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