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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The People’s Republic of China has expressed willingness to increase transit transport of Mongolia, reports the Ministry of Road and Transport Development.
The Ministry of Road and Transport Development in cooperation with Ulaanbaatar Railway Joint Venture Company is organizing a forum named ‘Transit Mongolia -2017’ on April 7-8 in Beijing, China. The two-day forum assembles government, transport and customs organizations and companies that are part of Mongolia-China-Russia rail transport to discuss the existing problems insightfully.
On the sidelines of the meeting, Deputy Minister of Road and Transport Development B.Tsogtgerel met with Lu Dongfu, General Manager of China Railway Corporation to exchange views on transit freight between Erenhot and Tianjin seaport, increase of freight passage to Mongolia, tariff discount and Tavantolgoi-Gashuunsukhait, Khuut-Bichigt and Khangi-Mandal railways.
The Deputy Minister talked about the importance of the forum in increasing freight passage through the rail corridor of Mongolia, China and Russia, and requested the Chinese side to study possibilities for tariff discount on Erenhot-Tianjin rail freight transport.
General Manager Lu Dongfu expressed that he will look into the matter and pay attention to transit transport through Tianjin seaport. Since there will be a need to improve the basic structure of railway as freight turn-over increases, sides agreed to intensify their cooperation.
Published Date:2017-04-07