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Russian company plans to build shortcut linking trans-Siberian railway with Pacific

Xinhua, August 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Russian company Samarga-Holding plans to create a transport corridor in the Far East by 2025 connecting the trans-Siberian railway to the Pacific, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported Monday.

"The transport corridor will link the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk with the mouth of the river Samarga" through a 380-km-long railway, Alexander Vasiliev, head of the company's development and external relations, told a news conference.

The company is looking for investors from countries in the Asia-Pacific and will introduce the project at the second Eastern Economic Forum scheduled for Sept. 2-3 in Vladivostok, he said.

The corridor "Samarga" is expected to cut 500 km from the existing freight traffic route, to reach a seaport to be built at the mouth of the river Samarga. The port is designed to handle an annual volume of cargoes of up to 80 million tons.

A town of a population of 50,000 is planned to be built around the port, Vasiliev said. Endi