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A 500 kilometer railway from Karpogory to Indiga is now on the table for for investment as part of Russia’s larger Arctic infrastructure strategy.
“In general, it’s absolutely normal, uncomplicated terrain, there are no particularly expensive work,” acting Arkhangelsk governor Aleksandr Tsybulsky told reporters this week according to state-run news agency TASS.
Construction of the railway, a side-track from the larger projected Belkomur line, is estimated at 200 billion rubles.
Belkomur is the longtime planned rail line from Solikamsk in the Urals via Syktyvkar in the Komi Republic to Arkhangelsk by the White Sea. This railway across Russia’s European north will cut the distance from the Urals and Siberia to Arkhangelsk by 800 kilometers.
In the village of Indiga on the coast to the Barents Sea, five milion dollars are already spent to prepare for the construction of a deepwater year-round port, TASS reports.
More money is in the pipe when the large-scale construction work for the port facilities starts next year. Investments may exceed 300 billion rubles ($4,13 billion) before grand opening of the port in 2025, according to the private investment fund AEON Corporation.
Russia’s new Arctic hub in Indiga will get a capacity to handle 80 to 200 million tons of cargo per year.ADVERTISEMENT
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