Magazines — RZD-Partner International — 1 (5) March-May 2006
1 (5) March-May 2006
"IF IT IS TRANSIT, WE'LL MAKE IT COMPETITIVE": "Russia hosts foreign airplanes, in the future we'll welcome trains (the Finnish "Sibelius" has already been calling) and, consequently, river vessels. We ought not to close, but, on the opposite, we should encourage the boost of transportation volumes", assures Igor Levitin, The RF Minister of Transport.DEPENDENT COAL: Lately Russian coal sector has been considered one of the most stable and fast developing, due to high coal prices on the world markets and investment activity of coal producers. Analysts evaluate coal produce at about 282 million tons in 2005.
TO SAVE RUSSIAN SHIPBUILDING: Russia is one of the leading sea powers in the world, historically in possession of a strong merchant, fishery and military fleet. However, by now it has almost lost its leading positions in the sphere of shipping and shipbuilding.
Export services, or on the way to private investment
PROJECTS AND INVESTIMENT
Last year was of symbolic character for the Russian transport sector: the idea of public and private partnership actively discussed recently was given support at the legislative level. Moreover, experts of the RF Ministry of Transport worked out documents defining strategic tasks and development mechanisms for the sector. In particular, the federal target programme "Development of transport services export of Russia" reflects a new approach of the Ministry to choosing forms of implementation and control for different projects within the transport sector.