Strategy for RF Transport Development till 2030 should be executed despite the crisis – Vladimir Putin
RF Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the meeting with Minister of Transport Igor Levitin, Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko and President of Russian Railways OJSC Vladimir Yakunin noted that all plans of the Government including the Strategy for RF Transport Development till 2030 should be executed despite the crisis, RF Government press center reports.
"We have just approved the Strategy for RF Transport Development till 2030. We have recently approved the Strategy for RF Railway Transport Development and the Strategy for Vehicle Engineering Development... We are here today to discuss how these plans are to be implemented against the existing situation and well-known problems of global economy,” Putin said.
Putin also noted that considerable share of the plans depends on cooperation and interaction with partners. "Today we should and will presume that Russian money, money of Russian companies and especially money of the Russian Government should work in Russian economy. All the participants of this process should take the current situation into account when it comes to pricing. They should remember about an alternative in the form of import", the PM underlined.
According to Putin, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Industry and Trade should hold a series of meetings with the process participants and representatives of financial sector in order to specify the details of joint work and to ensure absolute execution of all the plans.
The transport strategy is to be implemented in two states. The first one (till 2015) envisages completion of transport system modernization; the second one (2016-2030) – intensive innovative development of Russia’s transport system. Total capital investment is valued at RUR 170.6 trillion (in prices of corresponding years with VAT).
According to the draft strategy, cargo transportation is to grow to 20.7 bln t by 2030 (1.7 times against 2007); cargo turnover – to 4.56 trillion t/km by 2030 (1.84 times). Transportation of containerized cargo is to increase 6-fold to 648 million tonnes.
Throughput of Russia’s seaports is to grow by 2.3 times to 1.025 bln t.
According to the document, export of transport services is to increase 7.8 times by 2030, transit transportation via Russia is to grow from 28 million tonnes to 100 million tonnes.
To achieve the above results it is necessary to build 20,730 km of railways.
In 2010-2015 it is planned to build and reconstruct some 8,000 km of federal highways as well as reconstruction of 1,900 km of paid roads and highways. Over 7,000 km of paid roads and highways are to be built and reconstructed in 2016-2030.
The draft strategy envisages development of sea transport, expansion of transport infrastructure in North, Baltic, Azov-and-Black and Far East basins.