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New railway to connect Borzya-Choibalsan Line with China |
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
 Mongolia Web News - Developers began work on Saturday on a railroad line which will link China with Mongolia and Russia.
Called an "energy line" by the developers, the railroad is primarily intended will carry coal from China's northeast provinces throughMongolia and into Russia, but officials expect the rail line will ultimately increase mutual trade between the three countries.
The first phase of the project will include constructing a 487 kilometer rail line from Xinqiu, Fuxin City in northeast China'sLiaoning Province, to Bayan Ul in China's Inner Mongolia. The second phase will bring it to Mongolia's eastern border, while finally in thethird phase it will connect to Dornod's capital Choibalsan, where it links to the 236-km freight-only branch to Borzya.
The cost for this beginning phase of the project will be $790 million and is expected to be completed in 2010.
The Xinqiu-Bayan Ul railway, the longest of the three planned sections, is expected to handle the annual transport of 35 milliontons of coal within ten to fifteen years of it becoming operational.The second phase of construction would lead the railway from Bayan Ulnorthward to Zhuengadabuqi Port, on the border of Mongolia, about 230km long. The third section would stretch northward to Choibalsan City,Mongolia, where it would join the railway to Russia's Borzya, said pan.
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