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MISSING LINK: RAILWAY COMPANY HEAD CONFIRMS PLANS FOR COMMUTER TRAIN BETWEEN AIRPORT AND YEREVAN METRO
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow
25.05.12
Director General of the South Caucasus Railways (SCR) company Viktor
Rebets
The project to connect Armenia's international Zvartnots airport and
the Yerevan underground with a commuter train service will soon get
off the drawing board, according to Director General of the South
Caucasus Railways (SCR) company Viktor Rebets.
At a press conference on Thursday Rebets said that the commuter
train linking the airport and the Charbakh station of the Yerevan
underground will be built within a year.
The construction will be part of the program related to building
an international logistics center and transport infrastructure at
Zvartnots that was approved by the Armenian government in November.
A trilateral memorandum about the intention to build a commuter train
link towards the Zvartnots airport was signed among the minister of
transport and communications, the SCR director general and the Armenia
International Airports company general manager on May 4, said Rebets,
adding that the rail link will be an estimated 7.8 kilometers long.
Also, he said, an 810-meter-long tunnel is expected to be built.
The realization of the project is expected to facilitate access to
the city for passengers at Zvartnots as well as provide a link between
the airport's cargo terminal and the Karmir Blur railway station.
The SCR CJSC is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways OJSC. In 2008
it assumed the management of the Armenian Railways CJSC for 30 years.
Rebets, who was appointed director general of SCR only 100 days ago,
reported that during the past three years of its activities the company
made an investment of nearly 72.1 billion drams (about $180 million)
that was aimed at upgrading Armenia's rail infrastructure.
Despite the reforms, the SCR head said he was still dissatisfied with
the rate of cargo shipment volume growth registered by the company.
"Although during the four months of 2012 the volume of SCR cargo
shipments totaled 898,000 tons, which exceeds by 2 percent that
registered during the same period of 2011, this growth is still not
as dynamic as we would like it to be," said Rebets, adding that the
April-May cargo shipment growth rate still gave hopes for a significant
rise by the end of the year.
The company head also said that they were working to raise the level
of services provided to customers and at this moment were engaged
in repairs of commuter train carriages as well as the train railway
along the Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan route. The train servicing the
popular tourist destination in Armenia is expected to open on June 15.
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow
25.05.12
Director General of the South Caucasus Railways (SCR) company Viktor
Rebets
The project to connect Armenia's international Zvartnots airport and
the Yerevan underground with a commuter train service will soon get
off the drawing board, according to Director General of the South
Caucasus Railways (SCR) company Viktor Rebets.
At a press conference on Thursday Rebets said that the commuter
train linking the airport and the Charbakh station of the Yerevan
underground will be built within a year.
The construction will be part of the program related to building
an international logistics center and transport infrastructure at
Zvartnots that was approved by the Armenian government in November.
A trilateral memorandum about the intention to build a commuter train
link towards the Zvartnots airport was signed among the minister of
transport and communications, the SCR director general and the Armenia
International Airports company general manager on May 4, said Rebets,
adding that the rail link will be an estimated 7.8 kilometers long.
Also, he said, an 810-meter-long tunnel is expected to be built.
The realization of the project is expected to facilitate access to
the city for passengers at Zvartnots as well as provide a link between
the airport's cargo terminal and the Karmir Blur railway station.
The SCR CJSC is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways OJSC. In 2008
it assumed the management of the Armenian Railways CJSC for 30 years.
Rebets, who was appointed director general of SCR only 100 days ago,
reported that during the past three years of its activities the company
made an investment of nearly 72.1 billion drams (about $180 million)
that was aimed at upgrading Armenia's rail infrastructure.
Despite the reforms, the SCR head said he was still dissatisfied with
the rate of cargo shipment volume growth registered by the company.
"Although during the four months of 2012 the volume of SCR cargo
shipments totaled 898,000 tons, which exceeds by 2 percent that
registered during the same period of 2011, this growth is still not
as dynamic as we would like it to be," said Rebets, adding that the
April-May cargo shipment growth rate still gave hopes for a significant
rise by the end of the year.
The company head also said that they were working to raise the level
of services provided to customers and at this moment were engaged
in repairs of commuter train carriages as well as the train railway
along the Yerevan-Batumi-Yerevan route. The train servicing the
popular tourist destination in Armenia is expected to open on June 15.