AMOST Foundation presents infrastructure market overview
The AMOST Foundation, the Russian association of bridge building companies, presents an overview of the Russian transport infrastructure construction market.
The transport infrastructure market in currently represents around 15% of the whole construction industry and increased nearly 5% in 2009 despite a decrease in the overall construction market of nearly 16%.
According to the Federal Transport Programme «The Modernisation of the Russian Transport System» (FTP) the total market for roads and bridges reached RUB474 bn in 2009 (including VAT but excluding R&D). Of this, 60% was spent on new construction, and 40% on repairs and maintenance with the biggest investment, in terms of the construction and reconstruction of federal roads, being in, Moscow Oblast and.
«Bridges are crucial for the modernisation and expansion of federal highways and railways and represent one of the largest and fastest growing segments of the construction sector with high profitability and a high reliance on intellectual expertise and industrial know-how», said Sergey Mozalev, commenting on the infrastructure construction market. Figures published by Rosstat indicate that the length of bridge construction grew from 25,779 running metres in 2008 to 30,018 running metres in 2009.
According to FTP, the total rail market was worth around RUB135 bn in 2009 (including VAT but excluding R&D), about 50% of which was spent on non-infrastructure related expenditure and about 12% on costs directly related to bridge building.
Sergey Mozalev said that in addition to the ongoing infrastructure modernisation and expansion works, the industry was implementing strategic programmes with secured financing including The Federal Targeted Programme «On construction of Olympic Venues and development of Sochi city as a mountain climatic resort», «The Development of the Far East and Zabaykalye» programme (including projects relating to the 2012 APEC Summit in Vladivostok) as well as projects preparing for the 2013 Kazan Universiade. In addition, a number of public-private partnerships are being implemented in including rail construction (Naryn-Lugokan and Ulak-Elga railways), road construction (Federal motorway
About AMOST Foundation
The AMOST Foundation (formerly «The Association of Bridge Engineers») is a Russian not-for-profit association that unites all the leading construction and industrial organisations and scientific, technical and design institutes working in the bridge engineering sector including technical universities and organisations involved in the inspection and monitoring of bridges in Russia and CIS.
Full version of the overview is available at amost.org
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Sergey Mozalev, executive director of the Association of Russian Bridge Constructors (AMOST Foundation)
AMOST Foundation
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