Zamiin-Uud logistics center to transit 6 million tons of freight transport annually

Oyundelger 2017-07-05 06:07

Economy

The Government of Mongolia and Asian Development Bank are implementing the “Regional Logistics Development Project” in Zamiin-Uud in order to increase the capacity of logistics facility.

Zamiin-Uud logistics centre to transit 6 million tons of freight transport annually. The Government of Mongolia and Asian Development Bank are implementing the “Regional Logistics Development Project” in Zamiin-Uud in order to increase the capacity of logistics facility. The ongoing project will serve as transiting freight transports to the Asia-Europe route freight transport that became effective following the trilateral meeting among the heads of state of Mongolia, Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China. Therefore, the facility will have a significant impact by increasing import, export and transit transports in Mongolia. Furthermore, several necessary projects, such as a construction of over bridge above railways, auto road, water pipe, security fence, cable line, 10 kW sub-station, 110 kW high voltage sub-station and its extension of power transmission line have been constructed from the State Budget. The project’s implementation status is 40 percent informed the Contractor. Once the Logistics Facility starts operation, around 6 million tons of freight transports can be transited through Zamiin-Uud station annually. The construction work is expected to be finished by next year and put in operation by 2019.