Russia and China have started traffic on the first railway bridge over the Amur River on the Nizhneleninskoye-Tongjiang cross-border section, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said in a press release on Wednesday.
The bridge opens a new transport corridor between Russia and China, removing a number of existing infrastructure limitations. The distance for transporting goods to China's northern provinces will be reduced by more than 700 km compared to the existing routes,” RDIF noted. Unlocking the potential of Russian-Chinese cooperation is impossible without developing transport and logistics infrastructure.
China is Russia's largest economic and trading partner, as trade between our countries shows steady growth and has already surpassed $150 billion this year," Kirill Dmitriev, head of RDIF, was quoted as saying by Service.Press
"The historic railway bridge over the Amur River is one of the largest cross-border projects between Russia and China and a major infrastructure project being carried out by RDIF.
Its opening will increase the competitiveness of Russian and Chinese companies and ensure a predictable schedule for the goods and cargo traffic, affordable raw materials and energy resources, as well as increasing the capacity of the railway lines between the Russian Federation and China by 1.5 times", directs .
The governments of Russia and China signed the agreement on the construction of the bridge in 2008.
The RDIF, together with Chinese partners, has funded more than 70% of the construction of the Russian part of the bridge. According to the RDIF report, the state development company VEB.RF and Russian Railways also appeared as investors in the project. part of the bridge of the Nizhneleninskoye-Tongjiang level crossing is 2.2 km long.
The bridge is designed as a sliding passage for trains along the track of two standards with a width of 1520 mm (Russia) and 1435 mm (China). The maximum capacity of the bridge will be up to 20 million tons of cargo per year.
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