Ulaanbaatar
Some imported railroad equipment being produced at home
Economy
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Railroad maintenance engineers and technicians are producing some equipment and devices domestically that would replace foreign import. These include cleaning machine of snow, sand and weeds on railroads and electronic test equipment and the newly invented devices proved to be very efficient in increasing work productivity and saving time as well as economical.
During the last weekends, Minister of Road and Transport Development D.Ganbat worked in Zamiin-Uud and Sainshand soums of Dornogobi aimag, visiting some railway stations and junctions to get acquainted with the works of railway employees.
There are over 700 UAZ-469 vehicles that carry out cross border transportation in Zamiin-Uud soum and to cross the border each vehicle pays a total of CNY82 daily for taxes and permission paper fee to China. It means some MNT17 million is paid every day. Minister of Road and Transport Development D.Ganbat noted that these taxes and fees should be lowered with the cooperation of citizens, transporters and government.
The Minister was also introduced with the process of the regional logistic development project, which is constructing a new terminal to increase transit transportation to 6 million tons in a year.
B.Ooluun
