"It is quite a good result," RZD President Vladimir Yakunin noted during a selector meeting on the results of the company’s work for the first 4 months of 2009.
The RZD President said that some investment projects had being realized, first of all the Project of the "Complex Reconstruction of the Mga - Gatchina - Veimarn – Ivangorod Railway Sector and Railway Links to the Gulf of Finland’s Southern Ports"; "Transportation of Oil to China (2nd phase of the project) ", "Development of the Tobolsk - Surgut Railroad Sector", "Building and Maintenance of Artificial Construction Units", "Complex Reconstruction of the Kotelnikovo - Tikhoretskaya – Crimean Section with the Detour of the Krasnodar Unit" and "Modernization of the Sakhalin Railway Infrastructure".
According to figures to the beginning of May, 1,056 km of railways were improved by all kinds of repair, that is 26 km ahead of schedule. Preparation for summer repair work has been completed, said Vladimir Yakunin.