Russian Railways asks from the NWF 25% of the cost of the eastern branch of BAM

The eastern branch of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) is a one-track non-electrified section with a length of 1,916 km from Tynda in the Amur Region to the port of Vanino in the Khabarovsk Territory. It was built in the 1970s. last century Railway troops. In 2020, 24 million tons of cargo (mainly coal) were transported along this section.

In March 2021, President Vladimir Putin instructed to submit proposals for expanding the eastern section of the BAM to increase coal exports from the Yakut deposits, as well as work out mechanisms for financing this project, not excluding the use of funds from the National Welfare Fund (NWF) in it.

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