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Novosti/Vladimir Astapkovich
Samudera@WORKs - Beijing berminat dalam pembiayaan landasan kereta api kelajuan tinggi Rusia pertama antara Moscow dan Kazan. China akan melabur sejumlah $ 5.2 bilion (300 bilion Rubles) dalam projek itu.
Map showing route from Moscow to Kazan (Peta menunjukkan laluan dari Moscow ke Kazan)
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Sebahagian besar pelaburan, $4.3 billion pada kadar pertukaran semasa (250 bilion Rubles) akan datang dalam bentuk pinjaman 20-tahun dari bank-bank Cina, dan satu lagi $860 Juta akan datang sebagai pembayaran ekuiti daripada syarikat Cina yang bertanggungjawab bagi projek, RIA Novosti dilaporkan Ahad, memetik sumber-sumber biasa dengan cadangan itu.
Perjalanan kereta api dari Moscow ke Kazan, ibu negara republik Tatarstan, akan terpintas kepada hanya 3 jam ½ dan bukannya yang lebih daripada 14 jam yang diperlukan sekarang. Kereta api itu akan dapat mencapai kelajuan 400 kilometer sejam. Ia juga akan mengurangkan masa perjalanan antara Kazan dan Nizhny Novgorod, bandar yang ke-3 terbesar di Rusia, hanya 90 minit daripada 10 ½ kini dari jam lebih banyak ianya mengambil masa.
China may invest $5.2bn in Russia’s first
high speed railway . . .
Beijing is interested in funding Russia’s first high-speed rail line between Moscow and Kazan. China would invest a total of $5.2 billion (300 billion rubles) in the project.
The bulk of the investment, $4.3 billion at current exchange rates (250 billion rubles) will come in the form of 20-year loans from Chinese banks, and the other $860 million would come as an equity payment from the Chinese company in charge of the project, RIA Novosti reported Sunday, citing sources familiar with the proposal.
Train travel from Moscow to Kazan, the capital of the Tatarstan republic, will be shorted to just 3 and a half hours instead of the more than 14 hours it takes now. The train will be able to reach speeds of 400 kilometers per hour. It will also reduce the travel time between Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s third largest city, to just ninety minutes from the more than 10 and a half hours it currently takes.
Source: Russian Railways
Pelan ini telah dibangunkan untuk pautan pertengahan saiz lebih baik bandar-bandar di Rusia dengan meningkatkan pengangkutan, dan dengan itu mobiliti, rakyat.
China telah memulakan satu program bercita-cita tinggi untuk mengembangkan sambungan kereta api, dengan rancangan untuk meletakkan beribu-ribu batu trek baru pada tahun-tahun yang akan datang.
Kereta api penumpang paling laju di DUNIA juga di China, Shanghai Maglev Train boleh mencapai kelajuan lebih 430 kilometer sejam.
Hentian seterusnya, China?
Selain Kazan, keretapi TranSiberian sudah menghubungkan Beijing dan bandar-bandar lain di China dengan Rusia dan Eropah, dan China dilaporkan baru-baru ini mencadangkan idea untuk membina kereta api 2 hari dari Moscow ke Beijing melalui Kazakhstan.
"Pelabur China bersedia untuk melabur dalam projek kereta api berkelajuan tinggi antara Moscow dan Kazan, dan pembina Cina boleh menawarkan teknologi kereta api kelajuan tinggi yang paling maju. Mereka sedang menunggu keputusan daripada kerajaan Rusia, "seorang wakil daripada Speed Rail Lines, anak syarikat Keretapi Rusia, berkata pada mesyuarat itu di Sochi.
Menurut wakil, projek Moscow-Kazan bukan sahaja pelaburan bagi China, tetapi satu cara untuk meningkatkan komunikasi dan perdagangan dengan Rusia dan Eropah.
Keretapi Rusia juga sedang menimbang koridor pengangkutan yang akan menghubungkan timur Rusia dengan negara-negara Amerika, melalui Alaska. Projek ini telah lama dibincangkan dan dipanggil pautan kelajuan tinggi Trans-Eurasia Pembangunan Belt, tetapi tiada maklumat rasmi telah dikeluarkan oleh pengangkutan gergasi Rusia.
Dalam Oktober 2014 Rusia dan China menandatangani memorandum persefahaman melalui sambungan kereta api kelajuan tinggi.
The plan was developed to better link mid-size Russian cities by improving transport, and therefore the mobility, of people.
China has embarked on an ambitious program to expand its rail connections, with plans to lay thousands of miles of new track in the coming years.
The world’s fastest passenger train is also in China, the Shanghai Maglev Train can reach speeds of over 430 kilometers per hour.
Next stop, China?
In addition to Kazan, the TranSiberian railway already connects Beijing and other Chinese cities with Russia and Europe, and the Chinese reportedly recently proposed an idea to build a 2-day train from Moscow to Beijing via Kazakhstan.
“Chinese investors are willing to invest in the high-speed rail project between Moscow and Kazan, and Chinese builders can offer the most advanced high-speed railway technology. They are waiting for a decision from the Russian government,” a representative from the High Speed Rail Lines, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, said at the meeting in Sochi.
According to the representative, the Moscow-Kazan project isn’t just an investment for China, but a means to improve communication and trade with Russia and Europe.
Russian Railways is also considering a transport corridor that would link eastern Russia with the United states, via Alaska. This project has long been discussed and is called the Trans-Eurasian Belt Development high-speed link, but no official details have been released by the Russian transport giant.
In October 2014 Russia and China signed a memorandum of understanding over a high-speed railway connection.
