Stumbling block in the development of the coal industry are TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE
According to the expert, the planned target long-term program of development of coal industry until 2030 to increase in coal production (from 334 million tonnes in 2011 to 430 million tons in 2030) is lower than that in the Energy Strategy to 2030. The potential of the coal industry can increase production by 1.5-2 times, but this is prevented by the system is a problem of the disparity between the potential of the coal industry the level of development of transport infrastructure in the main areas of transportation of coal to consumers.
Yuri Sahakyan spoke about the causes of this problem. According to the expert, since the collapse of the Soviet Union has changed the actual geography and structure of the coal mining and uglepotrebleniya, the structure of supply, but the capacity of the infrastructure has remained at the same level. Thus for the last years there has been tremendous growth in private car fleet operators.
However, the liberalization of the railway sector has led to a significant deterioration of performance efficiency of rolling stock, which also had a negative impact on infrastructure capacity.
According to Yuri Sahakyan, to solve problems with a turnover of rolling stock from the government to adopt a number of measures, including the nature of competition.
First, limiting profitability of rolling stock operators will increase the motivation to reduce their costs and allow for the consolidation of the parks.
Second, changes in tariff system and regulatory framework aimed at improving the efficiency of the car fleet, will provide a surplus of rolling stock, which will lead to a decrease in purchases, reducing the price of new cars, lower rates of operators and limit their excessive profits.
Third, we need to increase the transparency of the operating companies by upgrading the existing classification NACE and include the type of activity `` Freight cars operating.
Yuri Sahakyan noted that the proposal needed to conduct statistical monitoring of the activities of the operators of freight cars in rail transport. At the same time, according to experts, it is necessary to guide the operator in a Federal State Statistics Service reports are the following characteristics: traffic volumes and turnover on the birth of rolling stock fleet in the ownership and management of rolling stock on maternity leave, income and expense statements from the provision of rolling stock excluding transportation tariffs for loaded and empty flight, which they have paid for JSC Russian Railways `` (information should be provided on the birth of cars to increase the correctness of the assessment of the development of competition and the resulting traffic load on the various commodity markets).
Yuri Sahakyan said that the collection of this information, it is advisable to carry out quarterly with each agent and consolidate Rosstat in the final accounting.
However, even the most effective solution to the problems with the park gondolas will not achieve the goals stated in the program of development of coal industry. According to the expert, skipping the railways by major coal fields or has already reached the limit values or reach them in the next few years: According to many representatives of the rail industry itself, the arrival on the net additional 10-20 million tons of coal can cause it to stop.
Yuri Sahakyan stated in the conditions of the current restrictions on the growth of tariffs for the services of Railways `and` significant distortions in the allocation of financial income in the direction of rolling stock operators, the challenge of infrastructure development without additional sources of financing is not available. Among the most effective tools for financing infrastructure projects to expand the speaker pointed to the existing positive historical experience of the use of government-guaranteed bonds or other long-term financial instruments to meet the challenges of the development of the rail network.
