The Chinese company turned a project to build a bridge across the Lena river in Yakutia – RSUTE

Moscow / 26.02.2016 / RSUTE.ru

Chinese Railway Corporation 24 Office “turned a project to build a bridge across the Lena river in Yakutia, said Thursday the deputy general director of the corporation Zhang Hui in Yakutsk.

«We do we turn this project, because I do not understand very well how to work on the frozen ground. In addition, there is no connection of the bridge to other industrial projects of the republic. For the sake of the bridge just makes no sense to build. But if, over time, the industrial project for transport infrastructure, which needs to be a bridge – we go back to the construction of this project “, – said the representative of the Chinese corporation

The government of Yakutia presented the project of the bridge on several international platforms -. East Economic forum in Vladivostok and at Expo in Harbin. For the Republic, this project is of strategic importance. Yakutia has to spend annually on navigation and delivery of goods to the northern and arctic regions of billions of dollars from the budget. powerful transport hub in the Far East, connecting a network of federal roads year-round automobile communication with the right bank side of the Lena River will be provided and developed The commissioning of the bridge.

Deputy Minister of Transport and Roads Yakutia Iraida Germogenova reported that the tender for the construction of the bridge across the river Lena will not be conducted: Chinese investors present in the government ready concession proposals

Recall ktayskie companies are willing to partially solve the problem of transportation of goods and passengers across the Lena, is not built a bridge to Yakutsk.. The regional authorities expect that before the summer of 2016, you can build a cargo-rope passage, which connects Yakutsk with the right bank of the Lena. The project cost is about 500 million rubles., however, the investor is not found.

It was noted that the bridge over the river Lena will connect Yakutsk, where the river port and the airport, the village of Lower Bestyakh on the opposite bank. In July 2015 it was announced that the project interested investors from China. In particular, the company “Qin Hua An Tszyu” declared its readiness to build it for 3.5 years.

In August 2015 the head of the legal support of projects and public-private partnership Rosavtodor told “Lente.ru” that the project is interested in a number of Chinese companies.

last year, the project cost was estimated at 64 billion rubles, of which most of it was planned to allocate from the state budget. were covered by the money of private investors About 15 percent have – a consortium led by the “transport concessions (Saha)” (VTB Bank, UCSC “Bridge”, “Bamstroymekhanizatsia” and “Institute” Stroiproekt “). But the concession contract has not been concluded in December 2014 the Russian government has decided to postpone the project for the period after 2020 due to the difficulties with government funding

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