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.
Not Only Sea
ECONOMICS / CIS and Baltic States
«The fact that the Baltic countries are located favourably in the heart of Northern transport ways and their port infrastructure, as well as that of railway and motor transport, is developed properly allows Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to attract towards their transit corridors a significant part of cargo flow following between the two enormous markets of East and West» – Eric Shmuksts, Director of Cargo Transportation Department of Latvijas Dzelzcels JSC, believes.
