Magazines — RZD-Partner International — 2 (10) June - August 2007
2 (10) June - August 2007
We Are Speaking of DevelopmentTraditionally each spring Igor Levitin, the RF Transport Minister, gives his exclusive interview to The RZD-Partner International business magazine where he analyzes the year’s results and emphasizes new focuses and prospects.
Olympic Sochi – Area for New Logistic Technologies
If Sochi wins the competition for the right to hold XXII Winter Olympic Games, the success of this event will partly depend on how coordinated and well-organized the work of the city’s transport system is. And railway is one of the key components in it.
Does TransSib Have a Chance?
Last year the aggregate volume of container transportation via the TransSib grew by 8%. It is not a very impressive result, though, considering recent tariff fluctuations, it was not expected at all. Nevertheless, the volume of transit flows amounted to 40 thousand TEU only, showing a drop by 68% (compared to 126 thousand in 2005). In this respect some questions arise: where the remaining part of transit went, what the structure of present day cargo turnover looks like and when thousands of container units will come back to the TransSib.
Russia – China: Direct Way to Europe
ECONOMICS / Transport Corridors
The dynamics of the foreign trade cargo turnover between Russia and China has become stable in recent years. Thus, for the past six years the transportation volume between two countries has doubled (from 24 mln tons in 2000 to 47 mln tons in 2006). The export cargo volumes have doubled as well (from 22.6 mln tons to 43.8 mln tons), import has grown by 2.8 times (from 1.1 mln tons to 3 mln tons), though transit transportation has seriously dropped (from 637.4 thousand tons to 253.7 thousand tons). Vadim Morozov, OAO RZD First Vice-President, comments on the prospects of Russia – China railway cargo transportation.
