Baikal-Transit will build a logistics terminal on the border with Mongolia costing 1.8 billion rubles
BLAGOVESHCHENSK. Jan 25 (Interfax) - Baikal-Transit LLC (Buryatia) will invest 1.8 billion rubles in the construction of a customs and logistics terminal in the area of Buryatia's Naushki border railway station, which will increase Russia's trade turnover with Mongolia and China.
The Far East and Arctic Development Corporation said that the agreement on the construction of the facility was signed by General Director Nikolai Zapryagaev, Head of Buryatia Alexei Tsydenov and Director of the Baikal-Transit Transit and Logistics Terminal Nikolay Kushnir.
"The terminal will be a railway-road terminal. There will also be cargo transshipment from one mode of transport to another. The project will be implemented in two stages, the first of which will benefit from an investment volume of 360 million rubles," Tsydenov said.
The regional government said that the total investment in the project is 1.8 billion rubles.
The Baikal-Transit customs and logistics terminal for road cargo in Kyakhta (a city in the border zone 35 km from the village of Naushki) is under construction. Infrastructure is being built for the transportation of goods for both Russia-Mongolia and Russia-China transit routes with a temperature-controlled warehouse and the only refrigerated warehouse in Buryatia. The project will relieve congestion at the Kyakhta checkpoint by speeding up customs clearance of goods and increasing throughput. The launch is planned this year.
The Far East and Arctic Development Corporation says that the investor is planning a customs terminal and a customs post for the site, as well as a phytosanitary service, and representative offices of Rosselkhoznadzor and Rospotrebnadzor. The project provides for closed and open temporary storage warehouses, an oil depot with a capacity of 76,000 tonnes, petroleum product warehouses, a container site measuring 10 hectares, and a customs inspection zone for timber and lumber.
"Our own terminated railheads and separate tracks will help relieve congestion on public tracks in Naushki station area. The project will allow us to optimize international trade turnover when importing goods into Russia and exporting goods from Russia," Kushnir said.
"The project will contribute to the development of this region's logistics cluster, allow for the formation of new transport and logistics planning possibilities, increase the territory's attractiveness for investors and will give them new opportunities to enter the markets of our strategically important foreign partners," Zapryagaev said.
The Naushki station of the East Siberian Railway (a branch of Russian Railways) is located 900 km from the Erlian station in China, with the route passing through the territory of Mongolia.
As reported, in October last year, representatives from the railways of Russia, China and Mongolia met in Irkutsk and agreed to increase the volume of container traffic through Naushki (Buryatia) - Sukhbaatar (Mongolia) border crossing by 25%.
Russian Railways started work on the Naushki station in 2023, undertaking the reconstruction of the transshipment complex and the extension of its receiving and departure tracks. The work is being conducted taking into account the fact that the prospective volume of annual traffic through the station will increase to 15 million tonnes by 2025 and to 20 million tonnes by 2030.