President of JSC Russian Railways, Yakunin and, Governor of the Khabarovsk krai, Shport launched a new tunnel on the Baikal-Amur Mainline

New Kuznetsov tunnel on the Baikal-Amur Mainline, which traffic was opened by Russian Railways concept, is to remove obstacles on the way to Vanino and Sovetskaya Gavan. The renewable road sector traffic capacity will be 19 million tons load next year and 35,5 million tons  by 2016.

On Tuesday the traffic on the Far Eastern Railway sector Oune – Visokogornaya was opened with the reconstructed Kuznetsov tunnel. This sector is located on the branch that joins Komsomolsk-upon-Amur with Vanino and Sovetskaya Gavan ports. Previously complicated relief was capable to let trains weighting no more than 4 hundred tons, there were also important limitations on speed. On the ceremony of new Kuznetsov tunnel 3,89 km-length opening president of JSC Russian Railways Yakunin made a point that only one part of the job is done. As he said, for the second part of the project reconstruction they will need 36 billion rub approximately. The continuing of the reconstruction process means building special approaches, double-track sections opening, lengthening the stations and building two-lane sectors. This part is accounted by2016. Yakunin added that the resource for the construction can be investment tariffs as well as state subsidies.

The Governor of the Khabarovsk krai, Vyacheslav Shport explained that with launching new railway object the idea of Sovgavan sea port special economic zone gets a new impulse for development, while total krai budget proceeds can double. In SPSEZ there are terminals for export loads transshipment and ship-repair and recycling plants planned.

Let us notice, that the participants of the international conference “Transport and Transit potential-2011”, held in the framework of the «United Russia» Party Project «Saint-Petersburg – the Sea Capital of Russia» submit an offer to render governmental support to material and technical basis of Far Eastern and Siberian ports development. In order to stir up Far Eastern transport industrial complex activity, in particular, transport industrial junction of Vanino-Sovetskaya-Gavan, sea port special economic zone “Sovetskaya Gavan” was recommended to take a number of measures by the Government of the Russian Federation. That suggestion was reflected in a final resolution of the event, sent to the profile federal subdepartments and the bodies of legislative authority.