Megastation of the bridge on Sakhalin can be useless - there is nothing to carry on it

For the self -sufficiency of the bridge on Sakhalin , the final decision on the construction of which participants in the Eastern Economic Forum expected from the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, there are not enough cargo. This, while the unofficial version was voiced by high -ranking sources of Vedomosti .

Vladimir Putin evaded a response about the construction and again instructed to calculate whether it would be enough cargo to be economically recalcious, offering to connect the regions to the calculations, the newspaper writes. Meanwhile, cargo is not enough: they mainly planned to transport coal, but so far none of the cargo owners expressed interest in the coal transshipment through Sakhalin.

In a letter, Russian Railways CEO of Oleg Belozerov, Minister of Transport Evgeny Dietrich in August, reported that the cargo base for the Sakhalin bridge was now estimated at 8.5 million tons, and with the planned construction of a new deep -sea port - 46.9 million tons.

According to the head of the Department of Studies of railway transport of the Institute of Natural Monopolies, Vladimir Savchuk, an incorrect cargo flow is laid in the financial model of the project. According to the publication, the construction of the bridge is also inappropriate by the Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov and Presidential Assistant Andrei Belousov.

The payback is not achieved without federal budget money, one of the government documents said, and if they are allocated, there is a risk of unreasonable waste of funds.

According to Savchuk, the new coal port on Sakhalin will require significant investments, their compensation will increase the cost of the transshipment. But the existing transshipment base has enough coal holders, there are no wagons to take out coal, the top manager of the coal company said.

Governor Sakhalina needs a bridge no later than 10 years later

Meanwhile, the Governor of the Sakhalin Region Oleg Kozhemyako, in an interview with TASS, expressed the hope that the constant transition from Sakhalin island to the mainland could appear for ten years. According to Kozhemyako, the region is not only very interested in the implementation of the project, but also ready to assist in the search for investors.

“We will have to go to this and can safely say that it should be. We will hope for it, believe and do everything so that the bridge appears,” the governor said.

Vladimir Putin announced to the Russians about the project of new megastation after the opening ceremony of the Crimean Bridge. The Crimean bridge built the "Stroygazmontazh" "King of the State Prises" Arkady Rotenberg, it can also become a contractor of construction and a bridge on Sakhalin. The crossing will probably become the most expensive project in Russian bridge.

The construction of the bridge will cost 540 billion rubles - 3.5 times more expensive than the bridge to the Crimea. And with the second burying of BAM and with approaches, the bridge project is estimated at more than 1.1 trillion rubles. At the same time, back in January 2018, the head of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Maxim Sokolov, noted that Russian Railways will be difficult to implement a project without state support.

The project provides for the laying of the highway from the Selikhin station at the Baikal-Amur highway to the Ostrovnaya station Nysh (585 km) with a bridge over the Nevelsky Strait (9 km taking into account approaches). The construction of the line would ensure the "sustainable transport accessibility of Sakhalin", to develop railway communication on the island, as well as port capacities.