Ministry of Road and construction reports at “Hours of construction” meeting

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Ministry of Road and Construction gave a report on its works done in 2013 and works planned for this year at the "Hours of construction" weekly meeting on Monday. One of the biggest reforms of the last year in the railway sector was an implementation of the "New Railway" project. In its frames, a construction of railway started from Ukhaa-Khudag to Gashuunsukhait, it has been running with 70 percent so far, the Minister of Road and Construction A.Gansukh said. The Ministry also intends to run a technical reform in the Ulaanbaatar Railway and to launch marine transportation in 2014. Regarding auto road works, the Ministry has started running roads from the capital city to aimags' centers within the 2012-2016 governmental programme of actions. Some 947 billion togrog has been budgeted for these works from the 2013 state budget, the Developmental Bank of Mongolia (DBM) and capitals of foreign loans and financial aid. Lat year, three thous.321.4-km roads and 2,984.2-km concrete bridges were constructed, the Minister said, adding that 1,560- km autoroads were put into use as well. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) reported that the country’s civil aviation sector underwent big reforms in 2013. For example, parliament adopted the state policy on civil aviation until 2020, the Minister reminded. In accordance with it, the flag carrier Mongolian Airlines Company (MIAT) was declared the state-owned company. The MIAT bought a new Boeing 767 300 ER, and it has performed 184 flights to Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, Moscow and Berlin so far. Apart from this, a construction started of a new international airport in Khoshigt valley, projected to be completed in January of 2017.