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Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, the publication got acquainted with the draft of his passport.
The main thing is that the increase (up to an astronomical 3.7 trillion rubles) will go not only to Russian Railways projects on the eastern BAM, to which the monopoly gave complete preference, but also to clearing bottlenecks on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Especially the “last miles” before export ports, which big business insisted on.
In the first option, the entire Trans-Siberian Railway accounted for only 260.5bn rubles of investment, now - 613bn rubles. This amount will include the long-overdue Khabarovsk bypass and the Smolyaninovo-Nakhodka section (UMMC lobbied for it). Another 355bn rubles will go to the Komsomolsk-Volochaevka section connecting both highways, which still remains single-track and unelectrified.
At the same time, the ambitious projects of Russian Railways on the BAM will remain and even become more expensive. These are backups for the Severomuysky, Kuznetsovsky and Kodarsky tunnels, as well as the second bridge over the Amur. The contractor will be Ruslan Baysarov's BTS-Most with the support of Gazprombank, financing will go through an EPCF contract, which implies a deferred payment by the customer for 10 years. Russian Railways is counting on additional revenues from increased traffic.
● Ships
The Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport (Rosmorrechflot) forecasted an increase in the capacity of Russian seaports by 2.9% by the end of 2024 to 1.4bn tonnes, acting head of Rosmorrechflot Boris Tashimov said on Thursday. Taking into account production plans for 2024, "we predict that we will exceed the 1.4bn tonnes mark by the end of the year," he said. Tashimov added that by the end of 2024, the total increase in capacity in the seaports of Murmansk, Ust-Luga, Vladivostok, and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky will reach 44mn tonnes. The capacity of Russian seaports currently surpasses 1.36bn tonnes. Last year, the production capacity of the ports increased by 63mn tonnes, including due to early completed investment projects in the seaports of Taman and Vanino, he noted.
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