«The railway company Tuntszyan» realizing the Chinese part of the project construction of a border railway bridge across the Amur River between settlements Tuntszyan (PRC) and Nizhneleninskoye attracted credit «Export-Import Bank of China» for the financing of works, chairwoman of the Association of Applied Economics Province Zhang Chuntszyao. «The loan amount is 400 million yuan (about 2.2 billion). Total investment in this facility is estimated at 2.632 billion yuan (about 14.56 billion rubles),» — she said, informs «Pacific Russia».
Specific date construction began Zhang Chuntszyao call difficult.
«When the bridge is built, all the railways of China and Russia will be connected, problems with transportation and the distance to be simultaneously resolved. Tuntszyansky Sino-Russian bridge will shorten the distance traffic through the province of Heilongjiang to Khabarovsk, Moscow 500 km, will reduce transportation time is seven hours» — she said.
According to her, the cost per tonne of cargo entering the facility will decrease by $ 6 (about 37.5 million yuan), which will lead to annual savings of 300 million yuan.
As reported in February, LLC «Rubicon» (a 100% «daughter» gold alliance Petropavlovsk) and «Tuntszyanskaya railroad», member of the corporation Chinese Railways, started the construction of the boundary of the railway bridge across the Amur River between settlements Nizhneleninskoye (near the station Leninist) and Tongjiang.
The length of the bridge — 2.2 km, of which the Russian part — 0.3 km. Capacity will be 5.2 million tons of cargo a year (I stage) to 20-21 million tons (II stage). The bridge is built on public-private partnerships, private investment is estimated at six billion rubles (divided equally between the Russian and Chinese sides), another 1.73 billion rubles allocated for the construction of the federal budget checkpoint. International project is scheduled for completion in December 2016.
The bridge will allow the company IRC (structure Petropavlovsk, the only iron ore producer in the Far East of Russia) to supply products to the markets of the Asia-Pacific region. IRC intends to create in the Far East mining and smelting cluster, which will include Olekminsky, Kimkano-Sutarsky and Garinsky GOK, as well as in the future, Far East metallurgical combine.
Last spring of «Foundation for Development of the Far East and the Baikal region» (part of «Vnesheconombank») entered into an agreement with GC «Petropavlovsk — ferrous metallurgy» to acquire 100% of OOO «Rubicon» — the project company for the implementation of the construction of the Russian part of the railway bridge the Amur River.