Baikal Economic Forum to focus on transport infrastructure development.

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IRKUTSK, September 8 (Itar-Tass) -- A conference entitled "Europe-
Russia-Asia-Pacific Region: Development of Transport Infrastructure" will
be held on Wednesday as part of the sixth Baikal Economic Forum.
The program of the conference includes three workshops, the forum's
press centre told Itar-Tass. Thus, the first workshop will focus on the
projects for the construction and upgrading of the railway infrastructure
along the Euro-Asian transport corridors. Currently, it takes up to 11
days to deliver cargoes from Russia's Far Eastern ports to its western
borders by rail, i.e. trains cover 1,000 kilometers a day. In 2009, a
program was adopted to ensure cargo deliveries across Siberia to Russia's
European regions within seven days, a goal to be achieved by 2012.
The second workshop will address problems of forming modern multimode
logistics hubs at big rail traffic centres. Russian Railways Co is
currently setting up such a hub worth 1.5 billion roubles in the city of
Irkutsk. The hub comprises a 3,400 square metre covered warehouse, a 3,700
square metre roofed area to store heavy cargoes, a parking lot, a building
for railway staff, customs posts and businesses. The terminal will be
equipped with special tools to carry out radiation and other types of
checks.
The third workshop will focus on projects of air hubs in the
Europe-Russia-Asia-Pacific countries air corridor. Russia's concept for
the development of the airport network up to the year 2020 provides for
the creation of 25 domestic airport hubs that will distribute transit air
traffic flows.
Apart from this conference, the Baikal Economic Forum's program
includes 11 round-table meetings to discuss possibilities for the creation
of a financial centre in Russia, problems of partnership between the state
and private businesses, measures to support small and medium-sized
businesses in Russian regions, new approaches to upgrading urban
infrastructure, development of domestic and foreign tourism, and the
ecological situation around Lake Baikal.
The forum will be crowned by a final news conference and a dinner on
behalf of the forum's steering committee president Sergei Mironov, who is
speaker of the upper chamber of the national parliament.
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