 Presentation
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Kyrgyz Railway department is a structural unit
of the Ministry for Transport and Communication
of the Kyrgyz Republic. The total length of Kyrgyz
Railway makes up to 423.9 km. Kyrgyz Railway is
a participant of the following Committees : Railway
roads cooperation organization, Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Directorate of the Board
of railway transport of CIS countries-participants
| Activities
of Kyrgyz Railway |
The main activities of Kyrgyz Railway are transportation
of cargo and passengers.
Transportation of cargo is implemented in any
direction in open and closed carriages and tanks,
3 and 5 tons containers and 20-pound containers.
Except servicing transportation process, the structural
units of Kyrgyz Railway are implementing additional
services and works for organizations and population
of the Kyrgyz Republic: construction-repair, joiner's,
electric-montage works, polygraphic and computer
services and also produce and sell iron-concrete
items, construction materials, metallic garages,
country houses, etc.
| Projects
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It is necessary to connect the north and south
of the republic through railway, in particular
Balykchy - Jalal-Abad - China. Speaking on today's
situation of the railways, the Minister of Transport
and Communication of Kyrgyzstan, Mister Kubanychbek
Jumaliev, told in an interview to the "Kabar"
Agency, that he has paid attention that Kyrgyz
railway is a stub track, has no continuous extent
and is divided into two parts - northern and southern.
Absence of reliable regular communication between
the two developed regions of Kyrgyzstan - the
north and the south, creates economic, social
and political problems. Connecting the stub tracks
of northern and southern industrial regions of
Kyrgyzstan will provide reliable inter-regional
transport communication on the basis of economic
and political unification within the state. In
words of K. Jumaliev, the main task of the Kyrgyz
railway transport is public conveyance and freight
traffic from CIS countries.
The Transcontinental railroad
The state directorate on designing and construction
of trunk railroads under the Government of the
Kyrgyz Republic was established in 1998. The directorate
is responsible for finding investors to design
and construct the transcontinental railroad "Jalal-Abad-Torugart-Kashi
(China)". Chinese side is interested in constructing
the road section within Chinese territory. This
will be the shortest road linking Europe and Asia.
The project cost is USD 2 - 2.5 billion. The length
of the road is 319 km. The government plans to
attract big investors to implement this project
according to the "construction-operation-transfer"
mode. The German and Japanese Governments are
interested in donating the money for feasibility
study for this project.
There are several large railroad networks, which
include the Russia-Mongolia-China branch, the Europe-central
Asia branch, and the Caucasus-Central Asia branch
currently serving the region. Now Kyrgyzstan has
potential to construct a railroad of considerable
importance. This railroad will allow trains to go
through Kyrgyzstan from north to south and from
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Railroad
transportation
There is a project of electrification of the "Lugovaya
- Alamedin" section of the railroad. The
project envisages upgrading of current capacity
of this section, because, due to electrification,
speed and carrying capacity of the trains will
grow by 20 per cent. This project implementation
will allow to improve labour conditions of locomotive
brigades and to prevent air pollution with exhaust
fumes from diesel engines. The project cost is
USD 97.58 million.
The railroad department under the Ministry of
Transport and Communications needs equipment for
major repairs of cars. Since there is no complete
set of equipment, the department has to make arrangements
for the repairs of cars in Kazakhstan. The project
cost is Kyrgyz som 59.98 million.
Currently, the Kyrgyz Railroad has difficulties
with fitting trains for long distance routes,
because of significant wear-and-tear (service
life of more than 30 years). There is a need to
buy 60 more cars. The project cost is USD 45 million.
New Railroad project
The Law draft on construction of new railroad
from Kyrgyzstan to China should have priority
meaning for Kyrgyzstan. Legislative Assembly of
Parliament accepted the law draft at the end of
December last year.
The road with a length of approximately 600 km.
is supposed to build from Balikchi town through
southern towns Kazarman and Jalal-Abad and further
through Torugart pass (above 3 thousand meters
from the sea level) to China. 2-2.5 billion dollars
are needed for the project, that will last 6 years.
Its cost will be covered in 15 years and will
start to bring an annual profit of 200-300 million
dollars.
Neighbouring Uzbekistan is interested in construction
of another road going through more southern Kyrgyz
pass Irkeshtam. According to the words of Mister
Tekebaev, Kyrgyzstan nowadays pays annually 50 million
dollars on an annual basis for using railroads.
According to the agreements of three state heads
- Chinese People's Republic, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
- the project on construction of railroad highway
by the route Andijan-Jalal-Abad-Fergana-Kashgar,
with a cost of 2 billion USD, will be implemented.
The part of road with length of 590 km. will pass
through Kyrgyzstan territory.
According to preliminary estimations of the three-side
committee, Kyrgyzstan will get more than 200 million
USD per year from exploitation of railroad highway.
It was informed by deputies of Legislative Assembly
of Kyrgyz Parliament, initiators of the Law "On
priority of constructing railroad Jalal-Abad-Kazarman-Torugart
with going out to China" I. Kadyrbekov and
O.Tekebaev during the press conference. This Law
was accepted by chamber at the end of December
2002 and sent for signing to the President of
the country. The most important is that supporting
the project with the law guarantees favourable
conditions for the investors and promotes ensuring
them with confidence in cooperation with Kyrgyz
side. It is expected that approximately 50 thousand
working places would be created during construction.
The work on construction of railroad Torugart-Jalal-Abad-Andijan
which was intensively worked out by specialists
during last 4 years entered its final phase. Now
the preparation of interstate agreement on construction
of road is started. Simultaneously they are forcing
preparation of technical and financial package
documents.
Chinese authorities made political decision by
supporting northern version of railroad construction
Torugart-Arpa-Uzgen. The route of Trans-Euro-Asian
highway, approved by powerful neighbour, will
connect both regions from Beijing to Paris and
take out Kyrgyzstan from transport dead-end. Without
doubts, it will give powerful push to social-economic
development of country. Benefits for state will
reflect not only in $200-250 million of direct
annual profit - under existing tariffs! - from
transit cargo and passenger transportations. The
Republic could earn more profits on exploiting
richest natural resources in the regions which
was difficult to reach earlier: highway will allow
to start to mine biggest layers of coal, iron,
aluminium raw material.
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