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RZD expects final say on wide-gauge track to Austria by yearend
VIENNA, February 4 (Itar-Tass) - The issue of extending a wide-gauge
rail track from Russia and Ukraine through Slovakia to Austria's border
will be resolved before the end of the year, the president of the Russian
Railways Company (RZD), Vladimir Yakunin, said in an interview with the
Austrian newspaper Die Presse.
"At present, participants in the project created a joint venture to
prepare a feasibility study. In spring we have to decide who will control
this work and by the end of the year we would like to have the first
draft," he said.
First of all, the extension of the wide-gauge track is necessary "to
provide direct shipment of goods from Russia or China to Western Europe,"
Yakunin said.
At present, cargoes are transhipped to the platforms designed for
narrow-gauge tracks on the border between Ukraine and Slovakia. Moreover,
some containers are loaded to trucks that take them practically in the
direction running across the railroad tracks. In the future such
transhipment will become unnecessary as cargo will go directly to huge
logistics centres on the border between Austria and Slovakia, where cargo
will be redistributed.
The project is estimated at approximately 4-6 billion euros. The joint
venture created by the four countries' railway companies will cope with
the issues of financing, construction and operation of the rail track.
"Railways have a huge advantage of sea shipments. We carry cargoes
from China to Europe 15 days faster," the RZD president said. "Japan's
entrepreneurs say the rail transport will not lose its competitiveness
even if the price of shipment of one container by rail is higher by 1,000
U.S. dollars than that by sea. The reason is that faster shipments make
the turnover of capital injected into these or those goods faster as well."
"Our plans are rather ambitious," Yakunin said. "As of 2012 we plan to
ship by rail 1 million containers from the Far East to Europe a year. This
market of services is estimated at 600 billion U.S. dollars a year and 6
billion U.S. dollars is just a mere 1 percent of this sum, but this is
really big money that is worth fighting for."
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rail track from Russia and Ukraine through Slovakia to Austria's border
will be resolved before the end of the year, the president of the Russian
Railways Company (RZD), Vladimir Yakunin, said in an interview with the
Austrian newspaper Die Presse.
"At present, participants in the project created a joint venture to
prepare a feasibility study. In spring we have to decide who will control
this work and by the end of the year we would like to have the first
draft," he said.
First of all, the extension of the wide-gauge track is necessary "to
provide direct shipment of goods from Russia or China to Western Europe,"
Yakunin said.
At present, cargoes are transhipped to the platforms designed for
narrow-gauge tracks on the border between Ukraine and Slovakia. Moreover,
some containers are loaded to trucks that take them practically in the
direction running across the railroad tracks. In the future such
transhipment will become unnecessary as cargo will go directly to huge
logistics centres on the border between Austria and Slovakia, where cargo
will be redistributed.
The project is estimated at approximately 4-6 billion euros. The joint
venture created by the four countries' railway companies will cope with
the issues of financing, construction and operation of the rail track.
"Railways have a huge advantage of sea shipments. We carry cargoes
from China to Europe 15 days faster," the RZD president said. "Japan's
entrepreneurs say the rail transport will not lose its competitiveness
even if the price of shipment of one container by rail is higher by 1,000
U.S. dollars than that by sea. The reason is that faster shipments make
the turnover of capital injected into these or those goods faster as well."
"Our plans are rather ambitious," Yakunin said. "As of 2012 we plan to
ship by rail 1 million containers from the Far East to Europe a year. This
market of services is estimated at 600 billion U.S. dollars a year and 6
billion U.S. dollars is just a mere 1 percent of this sum, but this is
really big money that is worth fighting for."
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