According to him, shipments for export to the East in eight months increased by 5.6% compared to last year. Border crossings with China are also increasing by almost 30%.
Belozerov drew attention to the fact that the volume of the investment program of Russian Railways this year amounted to almost 1.2 trillion rubles, of which 250 billion rubles were intended to expand transport capacity to the east . This is a very large amount, he stressed. As a result, from January to August builders completed last year’s volume.